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Director of Bands
John Gaertner graduated from West Texas A&M with a bachelors in music. He has taught for over 25 years in every classification from C to 6A. He has taught at Amarillo High, Gladewater Middle School, New Diana High School, Carthage Junior High, Whitehouse Junior High and now Kilgore High School. Mr. Gaertner is a woodwind specialist focusing on clarinet and saxophone. He performs professionally with the Sounds of Swing and Souled Out Jazz Band as well as other local groups. He has performed internationally in Austria, Prague and Brazil.
Mr. Gaertner is a member of The National Association of Military Marching Bands and the Texas Music Educators Association. He is an active member of the Marvin United Methodist Church chancel choir and tunes pianos locally.
He has been married for over 25 years to Catherine Gaertner who is the theater director at Kilgore High School and has two wonderful daughters, Grace who is a choir director at Perryton Junior High in Perryton, and Ella who is a student at Escoffier School of Culinary Arts in Boulder, Colorado.
HonorsClass Schedule:
1st - Wind Ensemble
2nd - Symphonic Band
3rd - Advanced Band
4th - MS Symphonic Band
Lunch
5th - MS Honors Band
6th - 6th Grade Clarinets
7th - 6th Grade Clarinets
Conference Period/Time 2:45-3:30
Tutorial Availability 3:30-4:30
Classroom Policies/Procedures: Band Handbook
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