Are you in need of a "positive charge" with your music teaching with regards to instrumental, choral and general music?
If so, you are in the right place. John
Kuzmich, Jr. Ph.D is a veteran music educator, jazz educator
and music technologist equally competent on all the woodwind and brass
instruments.
Paul Lukasiewicz is a journeymen music teacher and church music director. Together, they are uniquely creative and dynamic both in the classroom and beyond!
For example: one of John’s unique
talents is to personally place his students in colleges with scholarships. This past year, John’s students earned
full-tuition scholarships at the University of Denver, University of Colorado
and University of Northern Colorado along with smaller music scholarships to
Colorado State University at Pueblo, Adams State College, Western State College
and Colorado Mesa University. And all of this was accomplished while he was teaching at Shandong University in Jinan, China through the "magic" of videoconferencing with
GoToMeeting.
Paul is a problem-solver of the first-order who can analyze music technology challenges from hardware to software solutions in the areas of interactive web authoring to notation and music production, computter-assister instruction and beyond.
Don't hesitate to contact John and Paul for music technology solutions with your instructional challenges in an ever-changing profession. Their expertise and background are varied ranging from 55 years in the classroom in the public school classrooms as a band director for 25 years, 12 years as a music supervisor, a senior editor of three national music educator journals
(
Jazz Educators Journal,
American Suzuki Journal and
The Instrumentalist) for nearly 20
years and as a featured columnist for most music education journals with over 600 articles published since 1973. And most recently is hosting on-line videoconferencing interviews with noted music educators and authors covering the music education field. For samples, click
here and
here.
John and Paul are well aware of the needs of aspiring musicians and their classroom
teachers. John's music technology column appears regularly in
School Band and Orchestra magazine with
more than 200+ feature articles published on-line and directly linked to the
magazines from
www.kuzmich.com/articles.html
since 1998. In addition, John is
also hosting a monthly music technology column for
www.banddirector.com and for postings, click
here.
In addition, John and Paul are two of only 35
TI:ME (Technology Institute for Music
Educators) nationally certified institutional instructors to serve as a
training instructor throughout the country. As a clinician, Dr. Kuzmich frequently participates in workshops
throughout the U.S., Europe, Australia, and South America. This past school
year, he guest presented in Hawaii, Switzerland, and Poland besides recently
retiring as a public school educator for the past 43 years. Most recently, he taught at Shandong University in Jinan, China for the 2012-2013 school year.
2012 summer's
clinics are posted
here. For more info, visit John's clinician web site at:
www.kuzmich.com/clinics.html. In 2012, John has presented clinics at:
- 2012 Jazz Educators//TI:ME
National Conferences, January 6, 2012 in Louisville, Kentucky
- Brigham Young University,
February 17, 2012 in Provo, Utah
- Missouri Bandmasters
Association, June 27, 2012 in Lake-of-the-Ozarks, Missouri
- Donetsk Prokofiev National
Academy of Music, May 10, 2012 in Donetsk, Ukraine
- Bednarska Street School,
May 14, 2012 in Warsaw, Poland
- 2012 Family History Expo Conferences
in St. George, Utah on February 25, 2012 and Colorado Springs, Colorado,
June 2, 2012.
Again, don't hesitate to contact John and Paul for creative solutions for your instructional needs. No charge for brain-storming!
