Douglas Detrick

Douglas Detrick, 25, is a composer, trumpet player and music teacher based in Eugene, Oregon. Equally at home as a performer and a composer, he is a versatile and eclectic musician. He holds a Master’s of Music from the University of Oregon, where he served two years as a graduate teaching fellow. He also holds a Bachelor’s of Music degree in trumpet performance with jazz emphasis from Lawrence University of Appleton, WI. He currently resides in Eugene, OR where he works as a freelance composer, performer, educator, copyist and transcriber.
Douglas Detrick is an award-winning and internationally performed composer. Douglas was a co-winner of a 2007 Downbeat Student Music Award for his arrangement of Duke Ellington's "Single Petal of A Rose". This piece was premiered by the Lawrence University Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble and was performed in 2007 by the Wenatchee Valley Symphony of Wenatchee, WA. Douglas was the winner of the Meridian Arts Ensemble's first Composition Contest in 2007. The Meridian Arts Ensemble premiered Douglas' brass quintet, "As the Crow Flies" in a recital at the Manhattan School of Music in September of 2007 and performed the piece in Bulgaria and Mexico.
Douglas currently leads the Douglas Detrick Quintet, an original jazz group, the AnyWhen Ensemble, a chamber jazz/new music/improvisation ensemble, Any Permutation, multi-media free improvisation group and co-leads the Detrick/Swigart Jazz Orchestra, a big band that performs music by Detrick, David Swigart and Justin Morell. Douglas performs in the Emerald City Jazz Kings, a big-band-era revival group and also transcribes classic arrangements from recordings made in this period for re-creation by the band.