Jane A. Gouker has been Director of the Bloomington High School Orchestra program, and chair person of the entire string program for the Monroe County Community Schools since 1980. At that time the orchestra program was in disarray. Jane worked diligently and tirelessly to build and develop the orchestras and now enjoys maintaining a healthy, successful, award-winning, and complete program that offers students an opportunity to enjoy making music. The strength of the program and the accomplishments of its ensembles over these past 28 years have not only earned respect throughout the music community, but are considered a shining star of the Monroe County schools. Under her direction the Bloomington HS North and Bloomington HS South Orchestras have both placed in the prestigious ISSMA State Orchestra Finals various years; and the Hoosier Youth Philharmonic (the orchestras combined) has travelled on 26 concert tours – from Myrtle Beach to Chicago to Honolulu, Hawaii –earning consistent superior ratings, and the grand championship at the North American Music Festival in Toronto, Canada in 2000. In June, 2009 the “HYP” traveled to France by invitation from Musical Celebrations International. The orchestra performed at the American Cemetery in Normandy in tribute to the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, of which her father was involved, and several times in Paris.

Jane grew up in Red Lion, Pennsylvania as part of a very musical family. Her dad had been in the Army Band in WWII; her grandfather, a community band director; and her brother, a music educator and supervisor of music for the Red Lion public schools. As a youngster, she studied piano and theory at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland. Jane graduated from Indiana University in 1976 with a Bachelor of Music Education degree, as a double instrument concentration in piano and double bass. She studied with Mrs. Sidney (Bronja) Foster, and Murray Grodner and Greg Dugan respectively. In 1989, Jane earned her Master of Music Education degree from Indiana University, with a minor in child psychology. She began her teaching career in Virginia, initially for the Fairfax County public schools, and later for the Manassas City public schools, in elementary and middle school strings.

Jane serves as President and Treasurer of the Bloomington Alumni Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, and is principal bassist for the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and the Bloomington Pops Orchestra. She is a member of MENC, ASTA, AFM, and Phi Delta Kappa. Jane has been chosen for the Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers several times and is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who Among American Women and Madison’s Who’s Who of Professionals. She has been recognized by the Indiana Department of Education as a “saluted teacher”, has been honored as the Monroe County Educator of the Year, and was just recently named Bloomington’s “feature teacher” of the month. In 2010 Jane was recognized by her hometown and her high school as an extremely accomplished alumnae, and therefore was inducted as a member of the Red Lion Area Hall of Fame by the Red Lion Education Foundation. Besides her total devotion to her orchestras and “kids”, Jane enjoys gardening, camping, sports, cooking, holiday decorating and her exuberant friend Shadow, a black Labrador mix!


Juli A. Enzinger is Assistant Director of Orchestras for the Monroe County Community School Corporation. In this capacity she is Assistant Director for the Bloomington HS North and South Orchestras, the Jackson Creek and Tri-North Middle School Orchestras, and oversees the elementary strings program. Her incredible musical expertise, her master teaching technique, and her savvy classroom demeanor have not only helped build the orchestras to the solid program it is today but also assure that the musical and educational opportunities will continue and surpass the level reached presently.

In 1973, Juli won the Glen Ellyn, Illinois Musicianship Competition, and in 1976, she won the Young Artist competition in Elmhurst, Illinois. She graduated from Indiana University in 1980 earning a Bachelor of Music degree with distinction in violin performance.

In the performing field, Juli has enjoyed the position of Concertmaster for the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra (1990-present), and of Concertmaster for the Bloomington Pops Orchestra (1996-present). Juli also performs regularly many semi-professional orchestras in Indiana, including the Columbus Philharmonic, the Carmel Symphony Orchestra, and the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra. She is the first violinist for the Cascades String Quartet (1989-present), and also maintains quite a private teaching studio of violin and viola students. Many of her former students are filling the concert halls and universities throughout the United States as premiere performers and orchestra members. Juli is also very active in the Free Methodist Church as choir member and soloist, pianist, and organist. Previously, Juli directed the church’s youth choir and drama team.

Juli’s son, Jordan, has earned a Bachelor of Music degree in cello performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and is currently a Master degree student.