Douglas Olsen

Director of Jazz Activities at Worcester Polytechnic University (WPI) and Director of WPI Stage Band, Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combo, and Brass Ensemble. Veteran jazz educator, trumpeter, and clinician in New England for over 30 years. Performs regularly with top National and Regional acts, instructed ensembles and music classes grades 3-12 and through collegiate levels and beyond, and has established a nationally recognized jazz program in Medfield Public Schools. Active guest artist and lecturer at colleges and secondary schools including UMASS Amherst, MIT, URI, Berklee School of Music, and Harvard. Skilled composer, arranger, improviser, recording artist, conductor, and band leader in jazz/latin/classical/world-music styles.

• The Today Show, Little Anthony
• Montreal Jazz Festival
• Boston Globe Jazz Festival
• Boston Symphony Hall
• Boston Esplanade
• Jazz at Lincoln Center
• 2019, Two Cents, Original compositions published by BMI. #19 on NACC National Radio Charts. Active radio play of album in 2021.
• Wayne Bergeron, Scary Pockets, the Bad Plus, Jazz Educators Network Convention with Sean Jones, Stowe Jazz Festival, Cambridge Jazz Festival, Middlesex Jazz Festival
• Split Lead/Trumpet 2, Danish Radio Big Band, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10/01/17
• Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra, Eddie Madden Jazz Orchestra, Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol Jazz Orchestra, Berklee Faculty Jazz Orchestra, Smithsonian Masterworks Orchestra directed by David Baker, Tommy Dorsey Jazz Orchestra, Greg Hopkins Jazz Orchestra, John Almark Jazz Orchestra, Kenny Hadley Jazz Band, Brian Thomas/Alex-Lee Clark Big Band, Greg Hopkins Big Band, Big & Phat Big Band (Daniel Ian Smith), Igue Castillo Orchestra, Ken Schaphorst Big Band, Air Force Band of Liberty, Duke Belair Big Band, Louis Bauza Latin Orchestra, Jeff Holmes Big Band, Worcester Big Band, Hartford Jazz Orchestra, New World Jazz Composer's Octet, The Cape Cod Symphony, many small ensembles
• Michael Mossman, Jerry Bergonzi, Bob Brookmeyer, Yusef Lateef, Archie Shepp, Rufus Reed, Ed Calle, Calixto Oviedo, Nick Brignola, Terrell Stafford, David Baker, Billy Taylor, Jason Palmer, Alex Sipiagin, Conrad Herwig, Donny McCaslin, Yaure Muniz, Mark Walker, Michael Abene, Gerald Wilson, Demetrio Muniz, Igue Castillo
• Aretha Franklin, The O'Jays, Little Anthony and the Imperials, The Four Tops, The Platters, The Drifters, The Spinners, Frankie Valle, Forever Ray, Bellevue Cadillac, Jay Black and the Americans, Big Apple Circus
• Bellevue Cadillac (movie credits with The Sopranos, Shallow Hal), Redtenbacher's Funkestra, Michelle Mailhot, A Collective Directive, The Big & Phat Band (Daniel Ian Smith), Brian Thomas/Alex-Lee Clark Big Band, Tom Roli Big Band, Mike DiBari Swingtet, Nineteen, Who's Kiddin' Who, Ryles Jazz Orchestra, Chris Merz and the X-tet, Groupo Shekere, Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble, the Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra, The New World Composers Octet, the Fernando Huergo Latin Jazz Big Band

• JEN member
• NAMFE member
• Clinician and Clinic Coordinator for MA Association of Jazz Educators (MAJE)
• Directed District and All-State Jazz Ensembles in MA, NH, RI (MENC)