Jan Kagarice, a graduate of the New England Conservatory and the University of North Texas, currently serves as an adjunct trombone professor at the University of North Texas. She has also held guest teaching residencies at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, Germany and the University of Minnesota. She has performed with the Dallas Symphony, the Ft. Worth Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony and the Boston Philharmonic, and was the founder and bass trombonist of the internationally acclaimed trombone quartet PRISMA. She has appeared at numerous music education conferences and workshops, including the International Trombone Festivals in Cleveland, Las Vegas, and Feldkirch, Austria; the British Trombone Festival, the Brazilian Trombone Festival and the International Women's Brass Conference. She has received special training in the Montessori educational philosophy and has achieved significant success both as a classroom teacher and as an administrator. She serves as the assistant managing editor of the I.T.A. Journal, and is completing a term as a member of the I.T.A. Board of Advisors and the Pedagogy Committee.

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