Jonathan has been actively involved in the field of music-education since 2009, and has served as private instructor, ensemble coach and lecturer within public school, private school, charter school, and university environments. He has been an employee of many New York-based music-education programs such as the Afro-Latin Jazz Academy, The Gramercy Brass Orchestra of New York, New York Ensemble Classes, the Lyceum Kennedy International School, Jubilee Enrichment Programs, Jazz Empowers and the New York Jazz Academy. He also worked for 6 college semesters as a Graduate Part-Time Instructor for the University of Colorado Boulder, where he taught jazz combo and jazz orchestra as well as a 100+ student Jazz History lecture course. He has also been teaching privately for over a decade and has accumulated nearly 40 5-star Yelp/Google reviews He teaches out of his home studio on the upper east side, complete with weighted 88-key digital piano, a high-quality Bose speaker system, professional audio and video recording equipment, as well as musical media and sheet music spanning many musical genres, cultures and time periods. Jonathan specializes in the following areas of applied musical study: Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Improvisation, Jazz Improvisation, Composition/Songwriting, Arranging, Music Theory, Sight Reading, Ear Training, Music Appreciation, and Music History (includes classical, jazz, and world musics).