Janice Mautner Markham
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Klezmer Music Ensemble

Janice Mautner Markham is a Los Angeles-based violinist, composer, theater artist and activist. She is a founding member of her global string ensemble, The JAC Trio, and klezmer-rock band Mostly Kosher. The UCLA Milken Center has sponsored multiple projects for Mostly Kosher: a klezmer workshop as a prelude to the Jewish Music Festival in 2020, the Secret Chord music series and a performance in the works in conjunction with the UCLA Klezmer Ensemble. Janice has served as guest lecturer at Drake University, Iowa and Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota.

Theater and music have frequently gone hand in hand in Janice’s work, with numerous off-Broadway and regional theater credits to her name. She was understudy to The Klezmatics’ violinist Lisa Gutkin for the Broadway tour of Indecent at the Ahmanson Theatre, and was proud to participate in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association’s Weimar Cabaret performance, Musik! Fantasie! Revolution! Thus far, for 2024/2025 Janice will be performing in Holland, Michigan; Newport News, Virginia; Livermore, California; Chandler, Arizona, New York City and a double bill at the Carpenter Center, Long Beach, with Mostly Kosher and The Klezmatics.

Mautner Markham is celebrating her third decade as performer and arts educator with Vox Box Arts Collective and directs the Jewish Youth Orchestra, a project of the Jewish Federation of San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys. She is proud to give back to her community, collaborating with Urban Voices Project and performing for Cafe Europa Holocaust survivor groups. Janice is a teaching artist and frequent performer at Skirball Cultural Center and is Artist-in-Residence at Holocaust Museum Los Angeles. Former musician residencies have included Pico Union Project (2015-2019) and The Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum (2005-2010).

The tour of the Violins of Hope in 2020 gave Janice the opportunity to play violins rescued from the Holocaust, as well as the honor of participating in a short documentary on the project sponsored by the Soraya Performing Arts Center. The official season of Violins of Hope opened with a mainstage performance featuring Itzhak Perlman and Mostly Kosher performing for the pre and post-concert receptions.

Janice credits much of her music evolution to her father, pianist Raymond Mautner (z”l), and violin teachers Harold Ayres (z”l), former concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony (Minnesota Orchestra) and Heiichiro Ohyama, former principal violist and former Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

PhD Student/Researcher, University of Birmingham UK
MA, Arizona State University
BFA, University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA
Fellowship – Institute of Creativity, American Jewish University

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Donna Armstrong
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Supeena Adler
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David Bragger
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Behzad Nadimi
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Jesús Guzmán
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Pejman Hadadi
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John Lee
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Anna Morcom
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Münir Beken
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Mohsen Mohammadi
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Rahul Neuman
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Helen Rees
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Chi Li
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Joko Sutrisno
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Mark Kligman
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Maureen Russell
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Abhiman Kaushal
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