Dwayne Dunn just completed a 41-year career as a choral conductor and music educator. He was fortunate to work in schools for Grand Prairie, TX, Harlingen, TX, The Barstow School (Kansas City), Olathe East and Lawrence in Kansas, as well as university teaching at Texas State University, Louisiana State University, University of Arizona, and University of Kansas. In Tucson, he was the founding director of the UA Senior High Outreach Choir, which performed for the Arizona Music Educators Association in 2000. His Olathe East choirs were selected to appear before the Kansas Music Education Association in 2007, the 2008 National Biennial In-Service Conference of MENC: The National Association for Music Education in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and have completed performance tours to Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Canada. At Lawrence High, the A Cappella Choir were chosen to sing for the Kansas Music Education Association in 2016, 2021, and 2022 and have performed in Oklahoma City, Dallas, San Antonio, Memphis, and Nashville. In addition, Dr. Dunn has conducted honor choirs in Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Louisiana, and Texas.

Dr. Dunn holds degrees in music education and choral conducting from Texas Christian University, Texas State University, and Louisiana State University. With research interests in teacher effectiveness and student conceptual transfer, Dr. Dunn has presented his research at conferences across the United States and been published in the Journal for Research in Music Education, Choral Journal, Southeastern Journal of Music Education, Update: The Applications of Research in Music Education, and was a contributor to The Choral Director’s Cookbook. He was honored by the Kansas Music Educators Association with the title of Kansas Music Teacher of the Year for 2011 and was presented the Harry Robert Wilson Award for career achievement in 2024 by the Kansas Choral Directors Association.