Janine Schmelzer Bock, Band Director, Music Educator/Adjudicator. Achievements include: Artistic Director of the Zanesville Memorial Concert Band, Band Director/Music Educator for 30+ years, 'i' dotter-first female to dot the i in the Script Ohio Marching manuever in a single script in front of a home football crowd while a member of The Ohio State University Marching Band, Fall 1984.
Background
Ethnicity:
Direct descendant of Blazseous and Walburt Schmelzer of Germany who arrived in Ohio in 1839 due to wanting to give his inheritance equally to their five sons. Possible descendant of Johann Schmelzer who was the Kapellmeister of King Leopold III in Vienna, Austria (1650-70). Schmelzer is credited in the Grove Dictionary of Music of developing the Ground Bass (bass line).
Bock, Janine Schmelzer was born on June 14, 1963 in Nelsonville, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Maurice David Schmelzer and Jeanne Marie Flemming.
Education
Bachelor of Music in Education, Ohio State University, 1985. Master of Arts, Ohio State University, 2004.
Career
International Conductor- Vidin Philharmonic, Bulgaria- 2016. Artistic Director, Zanesville Memorial Concert Band. Band Director Franklin Local School District, Duncan Falls, Ohio. Director of Bands Licking Valley Local School, Newark, 1991—2001, music teacher 2001-2015. Tuba soloist Women in Music, Columbus, Ohio. Tuba player, guest conductor Muskingum Valley Winds. Area clinician, guest conductor wind bands.
Musician tuba performance, (concerto soloist) Tubby in Tubby the Tuba, Wind Band Music, 2005.
Membership
Secretary Zanesville Memorial Concert Band, Ohio, 1996—2003. President St. Benedict Catholic School Home & School Association, Cambridge, 2002—2004. Member Republican Club of Guernsey County, since 1997.
Member of Music Educators National Conference, Licking Valley Education Association, Ohio Music Education Association, Ohio State University Marching Band TBDBITL Alumni Club.
Interests
Travel, sewing, sports.
Connections
Married James David Bock, September 6, 1953. Children: Christopher David McCabe, LeeAnn Marie McCabe Darland.