Dr. Douglas T. Owens is an Associate Professor of Music, the F. Ludwig Diehn Endowed Chair of Instrumental Music Education, Graduate Program Director, and past Chairperson of the Old Dominion University F. Ludwig Diehn School of Music. Dr. Owens previously taught at the University Massachusetts Dartmouth, and the University of Southern Maine. He has been a music educator at the elementary, middle, and high school levels in Wisconsin. Dr. Owens teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He continues to serve as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator of wind ensembles, concert bands, and jazz ensembles. Dr. Owens has served as director of the 2024 Maine All-State Jazz Band, the 2021 All-Virginia Virtual High School Jazz Band, conductor of the 2019 Maine All-State Band and conductor of the 2014 High School Honors Wind Ensemble at Southeastern Louisiana University.Dr. Owens’ latest publication is “Interactive Composing in School Jazz Ensembles” in The Oxford Handbook of Music Composition Pedagogy. He has published research in the College Music Society Symposium, National Band Association Journal, Medical Problems of Performing Artists, and The Instrumentalist. His chapter on music entrepreneurship appears in the book Disciplining the Arts: Teaching Entrepreneurship in Context. He has presented research and performed at the Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Conference, the national meetings of the College Music Society, the National Association for Music Education, the Music Educators Association meetings of Virginia, Massachusetts, Maine, and Colorado; the National Hearing Conservation Association, the Health Promotion in Schools of Music, and the Performing Arts Medicine Association, among others. Dr. Owens is a former lead trumpeter of the Portland (Maine) Jazz Orchestra and appears on the 2009 recording "Nor’easter." While a member of the PJO, Dr. Owens performed with Bob Mintzer, the New York Voices, Conrad Herwig, Wayne Bergeron, Greg Hopkins and Denis DiBlasio. He is a past member of the Virginia Wind Symphony, the Norumbega Brass, the Thomas Snow Band, and the Chris Humphrey Big Band. Specialties: Music education, jazz pedagogy, trumpet performance, arts entrepreneurship, instrumental conducting and pedagogy, music-induced hearing loss research, musicians' health and wellness, curriculum development, music technology.