DOUGLAS T. OWENS: Biography

Douglas T. Owens is an Associate Professor of Music and Music Department Chair at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. His research emphasis is on music education, musicians' health and music entrepreneurship. He earned the Doctor of Arts degree in Music with emphases in Music Education and Jazz Pedagogy at the University of Northern Colorado. Owens earned the Master of Music degree in trumpet performance and the Bachelor of Music Education degree at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

An experienced music educator since 1986, Dr. Owens was most recently an Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Southern Maine. He has been a music educator at the elementary, middle, and high school levels in California and Wisconsin. Dr. Owens continues to serve as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator of wind ensembles, concert bands and jazz ensembles.

Dr. Owens has presented research at the national meetings of the College Music Society, the Music Educators National Conference, the Eastern Division meetings of the Music Educators National Conference, the Maine Music Educators Association, the National Hearing Conservation Association, the Health Promotion in Schools of Music Conference, the Performing Arts Medicine Association National Symposium, the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, the Colorado Music Educators Association Conference and the University of Northern Colorado Research Conference.

Dr. Owens has published nationally and internationally with research appearing in Medical Problems of Performing Artists, the National Band Association Journal and The Instrumentalist. He is the 2004 recipient of the Alice G. Brandfonbrener Young Investigator Award, presented by the Performing Arts Medicine Association for the paper Sound Pressure Levels Experienced by the High School Band Director.

As the former lead trumpeter of the Portland (Maine) Jazz Orchestra, Dr. Owens has performed with Bob Mintzer, the New York Voices and Wayne Bergeron. Additionally, Dr. Owens has been a member of the Chris Humphrey Big Band and the Thomas Snow Band. He is a former member of the Norumbega Brass.