2025 Maine Music Educators Association Conference

Dr. Dan Barrett directs the Jazz Studies program at the University of Maine, where he directs the UMaine Jazz Ensemble and teaches jazz pedagogy, jazz piano, and jazz arranging. He performs often with the UMaine Faculty Jazz ensemble, and recorded the album Putting a Groove on a Bad Situation with them in 2021. Dr. Barrett is the author of Solo Training for Trombone, a book of exercises based on standard solo repertoire for high school and college students, published by Mountain Peak Music.