Janice Mautner Markham (Musicology, PhD candidate) is a Los Angeles-based violinist, composer, theater artist and activist. She is a founding member of her global string ensemble, The JAC Trio, klezmer-rock band Mostly Kosher, and co-founded the Jewish Youth Orchestra in 2012. She is currently on faculty at the Herb Alpert School of Music in the Ethnomusicology Department at UCLA and has served as guest lecturer at Drake University, Iowa and Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. Janice was understudy to The Klezmatics’ violinist Lisa Gutkin for the Broadway tour of Indecent at the Ahmanson Theatre and performed in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association’s Weimar Cabaret performance, Musik! Fantasie! Revolution! Janice credits much of her early musical evolution to her father, pianist Raymond Mautner, and violin teachers Harold Ayres and Heiichiro Oyama.