Teacher and Activist
Giteck's focus as an educator/community activist began in the 1970's when on the faculty at UC, Berkeley, 1974-76; serving as Music Director for KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkeley 1978-79, and Music Director at the Oakland Museum as a curator of bi-monthly music events 1975-77. She was also co-director of the Port Costa Players, which produced over 200 new-music/theater events at colleges, theaters, community centers, schools throughout the western states and a European tour 1972-79. In 1975 Giteck was composer-in-residence at the Southeastern Alaska Fine Arts Summer Program for Youth and from 1976-79 she was composer-in-residence for the City of Berkeley's Cazadero Music and Arts Summer Program. She also served as a visiting professor at California State University in Hayward 1974 and later at University of Puget Sound in Tacoma 1983. She continues to lead a Summer Composition Intensive for young, young composers at Cornish, now in its 7th year.
Giteck served on the Board of Directors of American Music Center, 2001-2007; the Advisory Board of Washington Composers Forum, 1999-2008; and the Board of Music Northwest (a Seattle based performance/education non-profit) 2003-present. She has also served on advisory and review panels for the Bush Foundation of St. Paul, MN, Meet-The-Composer, National Endowment for the Arts Music Programs, Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Program, American Composers Forum, Arts Midwest, METRO Arts, King County Arts Commission.
Working directly in-community, Giteck combined teaching, psychology and composing while a music specialist at Seattle Mental Health Institute, 1986-91. Giteck was also one of four lead artists for ARTP (Artist's Regional Transit Project) a performance/media collective work sponsored by the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (Metro) 1992-93. Over the past twenty years Giteck has held numerous artist residences in regional schools, focused on issues of multi-lingual communication and curricula. Notable amongst these were projects at Echo Glenn Children's Center,Washington State Correctional Facility, resulting in “Navigating the Light;” and at Sacajawea Elementary School featuring ESL students, comprised of speakers of 22 first languages, resulting in “One Land, Many Voices.” (a live event and film documentary).
As a teacher, Janice has taught students individually from age 7-87, and in classes, workshops, and on-site residencies. As a Professor of Music at Cornish College of the Arts, since 1979, she has taught the following classes
Composition
- Stylistic Composition (Schoenberg and Stravinsky)
- Stylistic Composition (Reich, Crumb, Cage, Ives)
- Stylistic Composition (Bartok, Milhaud, Ives and Schoenberg)
- Composing for String Quartet (St. Helens Quartet, Corigliano Quartet)
- Composing for Orchestra (Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra)
- Composing for mixed chamber ensemble (“Virtuosic Music”)
- Composing for Chamber Ensemble (“Expansive Musician”)
- Composing for Voice and Chamber Ensemble
- Seattle Chamber Players (fl, clar, violin, cello)
- New Performance Group (fl, clar, violin. cello, piano, percussion)
- Taneko (Flute, Piano, Percussion)
- Esoterics (a'capella chamber chorus)
- Composition Colloquium
- Summer Composition Intensive
- Composition: individual instruction
Theory and Musicianship
- First Year Theory
- Second Year Theory
- Species Counterpoint
- 18th Century Counterpoint
- Music of J. S. Bach (upper level class)
- Stylistic Counterpoint: 20th Century Composers
- First Year Musicianship
- Fundamentals of Music (non-majors)
- Beginning Piano
- Analysis/History classes taught include:
- When Tonality Fell From Grace (first generation post-tonal)
- Modernism and Mavericks (1945-present)
- Music of North America
- Music and Healing
- In the Feminine Voice (feminist perspective on Western Music)
- Women in the Arts
- Women and Creativity
Creative Performance
- Composer/Performer Ensemble
- New Performance Workshop (interdisciplinary)
- Inter-arts Seminar (interdisciplinary)
- Artists Respond to Social Issues (Integrative Studies, H and S)
Academic, Artistic and Administrative Engagements
- Composer in residence, Native Lands Project, Seattle Symphony 2013-15.
- Lead Artist, Artist Regional Transit Project, Seattle METRO, 1992-93.
- Music Specialist/Therapist in day-treatment program, Seattle Mental Health Institute, 1986-92.
- Guest Professor: University of Puget Sound: Women in the Arts, 1983.
- Music Director, Oakland Museum, 1977-78.
- Composer in residence: Cazadero Music and Arts Programs, City of Berkeley, 1976-79.
- Music Director, KPFA, Pacifica Radio, Berkeley, 1978-79.
- Full-time adjunct, University of California at Berkeley
- Music Theory (first year)
- Music for non-majors, 1975-77.
- Full-time guest professor: California State University at Hayward:
- Stylistic Composition (Schoenberg Webern and Berg)
- Music Theory (second year)
- Individual Instruction, 1975.