Wayne Page began his teaching career in Lenox, Iowa in 1984. After spending a year as a graduate assistant at Northeast Missouri (Truman) State, Wayne taught for three years at Saydel High School. In 1990, he moved to Ankeny, where he taught for fifteen years before being named the Director of Jazz at Waukee High School in 2005. Over the next decade, he would build the jazz program into a model of jazz performance in Iowa. Last fall, Wayne retired as the 9th grade band director at Prairieview School in Waukee, concluding a 39 year teaching career.

Bands under Wayne’s direction have performed at the annual conferences of both the Iowa Bandmasters Association and the Iowa Music Educators Association. His jazz bands have performed at the Iowa Jazz Championships fifteen times, finishing in the top three in twelve of those appearances and finishing first twice. Wayne is an active adjudicator and clinician throughout the state and was inducted into the Community Jazz Center Jazz Hall of Fame in 2019. 

Wayne performs regularly with The Jazz Page (his own quartet), The Des Moines Big Band, The Turner Center Jazz Orchestra, Max Wellman, The Des Moines Symphony, Fred Gazzo, Freestyle, The Gaylin Sudik Orchestra and Dan Hartzer. He has also performed with Michael McDonald, Harry Connick Jr., Sheena Easton, the Temptations, Lou Christie, Leslie Gore, and B.J. Thomas.

Wayne holds a Bachelors in Music Education degree from Drake University and a Master of Arts degree from Truman State University. He is a member of the local unit of the American Federation of Musicians, the Iowa Bandmasters Association, the Jazz Educators of Iowa, and is a Past-President of the Iowa unit of the International Association of Jazz Educators. He has been a Keilwerth artist/clinician and is proud to be currently working as an Artist Educator for “Tenor Madness” Saxophones. Wayne is currently adjunct faculty at Drake University, where he teaches Drake Jazz II and teaches classes on Jazz Pedagogy.