Educator
Jonathan currently teaches at Monmouth University in their Music and Theatre Arts Department.
Music Courses include: American Music Traditions; Blues to Rap; Ear Training I and II; Independent Studies; Music Appreciation; Music for the Child; Secondary Methods;
and Roots, Rock, Reggae.
Jonathan is a PhD candidate in Music Education at NYU’s Steinhardt School under
Dr. David J. Elliott. He holds a Master’s of Music in Composition/Arranging and a Bachelor’s of Music in Jazz Performance on trombone and electric/upright bass from William Paterson University. There he had the opportunity to study with:
John Mosca-Trombone
Steve LaSpina and Marcus McLaurene-Bass
Cecil Bridgewater, Rich DeRosa, Jim McNeely, and Bill Mobley-Composition/Arranging
Education Publications
-The Power of Rap in Music Education (Under Review, 2021)
-Composing Your Meaning (Visions of Research in Music Education, 2020)
-The Outlook (Monmouth University Student Newspaper, 2020)
-The Outlook (Monmouth University Student Newspaper, 2015)
Conference Presentations
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Suncoast Music Education Research Symposium XIII at University South Florida, Tampa, FL, January 2021
Presenter: “Students as the Educator: A Student Centric Model for Curriculum Development”
Association for Popular Music Education at New York University, New York, NY, June 2019
Presenter: “Composing Your Meaning through Hip-Hop and its Role in Education”
Visions of Research in Music Education at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ, May 2019
Presenter: “Composing Your Meaning”
Doctoral Research
Music Composition as Pedagogy: A Qualitative Case Study of Undergraduate Music Students’ Experience with Composition
(Click on titles to listen)
Angela-“Bomba De Puerto Rico”
Cecilia-“Over the Meadow”
Woody-“Cavacha Rhythms”
Brandon-“The Mango”
Uma-“Gaudiya Vaishnava Kirtan”
Adele-“Electric Sinulog”
Esther-“Klezmer Composition”