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To assess my national status in the music education profession, please do a Google.Com search on "John Kuzmich, Jr." and you will come with no less than 300,000+ hits presently and a high of 649,000 hits on June 16, 2010 Why so many? See the following professional skills and experience that are nationally recognized by Google.Com.
Senior technology columnist for School Band & Orchestra magazine since 1998 with 520+ feature articles presently published on-line at: http://www.sbomagazine.com twelve months a year.
Columnists with national music eductor web magazine at www.banddirector.com with two monthly columns in music technology and jazz education since September, 2010.
Jazz studies specialist since the 1970's with emphasis in combo improvisation, electrified strings with "wire" choir (on-line at: http://www.kuzmich.com/zeta_bio.html and many pedagogical articles/textbooks on-line at: http://www.kuzmich.com/articles.html
Co-author of a primer-level jazz improvisation method that will be pilot tested on Maui, Hawaii for three-days culminating with an evening concert-demonstration in November, 2008. Projected publisher is Hal Leonard Corporation.
Multimedia expertise. For on-line audio and video streaming examples, please go to http://www.kuzmich.com/clinics.html, http://www.kuzmich.com/BYUrecording_2001.html and http://www.kuzmich.com/European_Video_Demo.html
Senior columnist for the following national music educator journals:
Computer music technologist since the mid-1980's with many articles and
national conference workshops presented including nearly every prestigious national music
educator conference: Music Educators National Conference, Mid-West Band & Orchestra Clinic, National Teachers National Association, Australian Society for Music Educators, International Association
of Jazz Educators, Texas Music Educators Conference, National Association of Music Merchants, and 200+ high school/college
and university appearances as well. Most recently was approved both as a certified
instructor and as an Institutional member for TI:ME (The Technology Institute
for Music Educators) at http://www.ti-me.org. For 30+ on-line clinic handouts, please go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/handouts/handouts.html. Note: many more clinic handouts are available upon request.
Retired public school educator as of May 29, 2009 with 40+ years of full-time experience with many accomplishments including winning the Missouri Concert Band Championship, three Gold medals at the World Music Contest in Kerkrade, Netherlands and half-time show appearances at Yankee Stadium for the New York Giants National Football League game plus 400+ published articles, and four landmark textbooks and a web-based curriculum.
17 years as a middle school computer teacher at Carmody Middle School in Lakewood, Colorado with entire daily and semester curriculum web-based. Go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/Body_Frame.htm and http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/Curriculum_Preview99.html
25+ years as a high school band director in New Jersey, Illinois, Missouri, California and Colorado.
Technology clinician at the 2009 International Conference for the International Association of Schools of Jazz in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Jazz clinician at the 2009 Pulawy International Jazz Workshop in Pulawy, Poland as well as at their 1996 and 1998 workshops.
Ten years as a adjunct faculty member for the band programs of Arapahoe High School and Dakota Ridge High School.
Successful private woodwind and brass teacher in Denver continuously since 1988 for Crescendo Music, Kurt Sterling Music and Denver Music Institute since 1988 in Littleton and Englewood.
In the summer of 2007, I taught in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Check out some spectacular photos at: http://www.kuzmich.com/SouthAmerica.html with photos from Machu Picchu, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago, Chile as starters plus a 23,000 foot mountain. See Riio de Janeiro, Brazil improvisation clinic summarized in the published article, "Breaking The Improvisational Barrier Without Your Axe!", for details at:
International clinician with guest presentations in Poland (1996, 1998 and 2009), Australia (2003 and 2005), New Zealand (2005), Chile (2005), Sal Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2007), Switzerland (2009) and Hawaii (2006 and 2008).
Author of two ambitious web sites promoting me as a clinician for music technology and jazz education workshops, respectively at: http://www.kuzmich.com/clinics.html and http://www.kuzmich.com/Jazz_Master.html with many videos and animated GIF slideshows. If you don't have RealPlayer on your computer to view the videos, you can download it for free at here.. The jazz master web site above is particularly unique as I recently taught jazz improvisation to a large symphonic band for 50 minutes in Honolulu with 10 videos to view me pedagogically in "constant motion." And the orchestra workshop was even more successful as they had the "ears" to do it mostly aurally.
Senior editor for nearly 20 years of three prestigious music journals and organizations. Planned and recruited editorial content and the direction of magazines. Dealt nationally and internationally with regular contributors, free-lance authors and photographers. Wrote feature articles and editorial columns. Supervised all stages of magazine production and improved advertising by over 50 percent.
Free-lance author with 520+ articles (including down beat, Music Educators Journal, Selmer Bandwagon, Jazz Educators Journal, The Instrumentalist, School Musician, American Suzuki Journal and many other national music educator journals) and four textbooks. For 120+ published articles on-line, go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/articles.html and http://www.sbomagazine.com and music technology column (1999 to present).
Eight years of successfully music administrator experience as a coordinator of music for a staff of twelve music teachers.
Co-author of three landmark jazz pedagogy books originally published by Parker Books, Warner Bros. and now Alfred Publishing. See: http://www.kuzmich.com/jazzbooks.html for more info.
College admissions and scholarship coach for music education majors.
Membership in Jazz Education Network (2010 presenter in national conference in St. Louis, Missouri), Technology Institute for Music Education (2010 presenter at regional conference in Cincinnati, Ohio) and International Association of Schools of Jazz (2009 international presenter in Lucerne, Switzerland and 2010 international presenter in The Hague, Netherlands)
Most recently, I was appointed official photographer the 2010 and 2011 national conferences for JEN (Jazz Education Network) which is the replacement for IAJE (International Association of Jazz Educators).
For a photo exposition of my 2006 Hawaiian three-day workshops at Kamehameha High School in Pukalani Hawaii,and Ponahou High School in Honolulu, Hawaii with Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Symphonic Orchestra and Girls Choir, go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/Hawaii2006.html.
Additional coursework at: Syracuse University, University of Illinois, Indiana University, Eastman School of Music, Vandercook College, and others.