Douglas T. Owens (BME ’83, MM ’86)

Owens is professor of music at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia; as well as the Diehn Endowed Chair in Music; and the graduate program director and past chairperson of the F. Ludwig Diehn School of Music. Owens previously served as music department chair at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and on the music education faculty at the University of Southern Maine School of Music. A music educator since 1983, Owens has also directed school band programs in Wisconsin and California.

At Old Dominion University, Owens leads the undergraduate and graduate music education areas, teaches graduate music education courses, co-leads the BM Jazz Studies major and directs the Jazz Orchestra. Owens’ latest publication is “Interactive Composing in School Jazz Ensembles” in The Oxford Handbook of Music Composition Pedagogy.