Who Is The Real John Kuzmich, Jr.?

A Music Educator for All Seasons!

  1. A public school instrumental music and computer educator since 1966 having taught in New Jersey, Michigan, Missouri, Illinois, California and Colorado.

  2. Marching band specialist early in public school career having won three marching band Gold medals at the 1966 and 1970 World Music Contest in Kerkrade, Netherlands along with half-time show appearances at Yankee Stadium for the New York Giants National Football League. Once offered to be the Director of Marching Bands of the then prestigious Bergenfield High School Band program in 1969 in Bergenfield, New Jersey.

  3. Jazz studies specialist since the 1970's with emphasis in combo improvisation, electrified strings with "wire" choir, and many pedagogical articles/textbooks.

  4. Conductor of concert band and wind ensemble that won Gold medals at the 1966 and 1970 World Music Contests and the 1973 Missouri Concert Band Championship.

  5. Music administrator, K-12, for eight years for the Kirkwood, Missouri School District as their music coordinator for a staff of 12 music teachers, 1976 to 1984.

  6. Senior editor of three prestigious music journals and organizations:

    1. Jazz Educators Journal for the International Association of Jazz Educators for nearly 15 years.
    2. The Instrumentalist in Winnetka, Illinois
    3. The American Suzuki Journal for the American Suzuki Association.

  7. Computer Music Technologist since the mid 1980's with many articles and national conference workshops presented including nearly every national music educator conference: Music Educators National Conference, International Association of Jazz Educators, National Association of Music Merchants, and 75+ 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).

  8. Free-lance author with 250+ articles (including down beat, MENC Journal, Selmer Bandwagon, Jazz Educators Journal, The Instrumentalist, School Musician, and many other national music educator journals) and four jazz and technology pedagogy textbooks published.

  9. Extensive web development experiences in national workshops and articles published.

  10. Originated and maintains four on-going technology columns in the following music educator journals.

    1. Jazz Educators Journal: "Survey of New Teaching Materials" and the "Watch Out' column since 1976 and 1993, respectively.
    2. School Band & Orchestra magazine: "Technology" and "Creating A Web Presence" columns since 1998 and 2001, respectively.

  11. National Clinician for Yamaha Electronic Keyboards and Zeta MIDI Violins.

  12. Videoconferencing specialist at prestigious educator technology conferences including NECC (National Educating Computers Consortium), ISTE (International Society fo Technology in Education), Classroom Connect, T.I.E. (Technology in Education)and others.

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  15. Recent 1999, 2000 and 2001 Professional Appearances