John has 43 years of public school teaching experience with specialties in jazz education, music technology and in videoconferencing instruction equally competent on all the woodwind and brass instruments. One of John’s unique talents is to personally place his students in colleges with music scholarships. His academic background also includes a Ph.D. in comprehensive musicianship. As a freelance author, he has more than 600 nationally published articles and five textbooks to his credits. As a clinician, Dr. Kuzmich frequently participates in workshops throughout the U.S., Europe, Australia, and South America.