Jerry Dunn
Jerry has a BA in Performance from California State University in Fullerton and completed his postgraduate music teacher education at Northeastern Illinois State University in Chicago where he studied with Julian Porrit, Tommy Johnson and Arnold Jacobs. He was a band director in Iowa and Alaska. While teaching in Alaska, he became an aviation enthusiast and went to work for the Federal Aviation Administration as an Air Traffic Controller. He retired from the FAA as a senior level manager of ten FAA facilities in Montana.

He has been an active performer and conductor in community bands, quintets and orchestras in Illinois, Iowa, Alaska, California, Montana and Oregon.

He and his wife Mary retired to Carlinville, Illinois, where they both are playing in community bands. They have four brass-playing sons, Captain Richard Dunn with the 10th Mountain Division, Light Infantry; Lieutenant Aaron Dunn, with the 82nd Airborne; Captain Noel Dunn, Army Special Forces and Jarred Dunn, social worker for the Boys Group home in Billings, Montana.

In the 10th Cavalry Band, Jerry plays a vintage Eb tuba.