Dr. Douglas Owens is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Tennessee-Martin where he teaches applied double reeds and music theory. He holds the BME from Furman University, the MM in Performance from the University of South Carolina and the DMA in Performance from the University of Georgia.

As a woodwind specialist, Dr. Owens has performed extensively on all five members of the woodwind family. Owens performed the premiere of Alta Graham’s Modal Suite for Baritone Saxophone and Piano at the North American Saxophone Alliance conference in Athens, GA. He has performed with the Georgia Double Reed Ensemble at International Double Reed Society conferences in Muncie, IN and in Provo, UT.

Owens won the University of Georgia Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition twice in 2006, performing William Davis’ Rhapsody for Oboe and Wind Ensemble and Mozart’s Concerto for Bassoon on the same concert. Dr. Owens is the featured artist on the oboe and bassoon volumes of the Sound Innovations method book series.

Dr. Owens has held teaching positions at Presbyterian College and at Fort Lewis College. His teachers have included Robert Chesebro, Rebecca Nagel, Dwight Manning, Carol Cope-Lowe and William Davis.