translator Afrikaans Albanian - shqipe Arabic - ‎‫العربية‬‎ Armenian - Հայերէն Azerbaijani - azərbaycanca Basque - euskara Belarusian - беларуская Bengali - বাংলা Bulgarian - български Catalan - català Chinese - 中文（简体中文） Chinese - 中文 (繁體中文) Croatian - hrvatski Czech - čeština Danish - dansk Dutch - Nederlands English Esperanto - esperanto Estonian - eesti Filipino Finnish - suomi French - français Galician - galego Georgian - ქართული German - Deutsch Greek - Ελληνικά Gujarati - ગુજરાતી Haitian Creole - kreyòl ayisyen Hebrew - ‎‫עברית‬‎ Hindi - हिन्दी Hungarian - magyar Icelandic - íslenska Indonesian - Bahasa Indonesia Irish - Gaeilge Italian - italiano Japanese - 日本語 Kannada - ಕನ್ನಡ Korean - 한국어 Latin - Lingua Latina Latvian - latviešu Lithuanian - lietuvių Macedonian - македонски Malay - Bahasa Melayu Maltese - Malti Norwegian - norsk Persian - ‎‫فارسی‬‎ Polish - polski Portuguese - português Romanian - română Russian - русский Serbian - Српски Slovak - slovenčina Slovenian - slovenščina Spanish - español Swahili - Kiswahili Swedish - svenska Tamil - தமிழ் Telugu - తెలుగు Thai - ไทย Turkish - Türkçe Ukrainian - українська Urdu - ‎‫اردو‬‎ Vietnamese - Tiếng Việt Welsh - Cymraeg Yiddish - יידיש   Double-click Select to translate     Jonathan Saraga is an internationally acclaimed, GRAMMY-winning, New York City-based trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, arranger, educator and Doctor of Musical Arts. He appears on over 40 studio recordings, in 250+ music videos, and has engaged with audiences in over 500 cities, nearly 70 countries and just short of 100 colleges/universities world-wide. He has 9 years of music conservatory training, holds 3 Trumpet Performance/Jazz Studies degrees, and has been recognized 35 times in the form of competitive selection from 25 organizations. Dr. Saraga has been active on the New York City jazz scene for nearly 15 years, and has played with internationally acclaimed ensembles such as Brass Against, the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, the Miguel Zenon Big Band, the Macedonian National Jazz Orchestra, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, the Birdland Big Band, the Jon Faddis Big Band, the Dan Pugach Big Band, the John Pizzarelli Big Band, the Mingus Big Band, Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, the Jimmy Greene Big Band, Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows Orchestra, the Terraza Big Band, the Josh Evans Big Band, the David Berger Big Band, the Valery Ponomarev Big Band, the Emilio Solla Jazz Orchestra, the Steven Feifke Big Band, Manuel Valera’s New Cuban Express Big Band, the Jason Marshall Big Band, the Dan Pugash Big Band featuring Nicole Zuraitis, the BMI Jazz Orchestra, the Samuel Torres Big Band, the Sam Blakeslee Large Group, the Miho Hazama Jazz Orchestra, the Jihye Lee Jazz Orchestra the Migiwa Miyajima Jazz Orchestra and Brass Against, as well as ensembles led by Zee Avi, Erich Bergen, Tyshawn Sorey, Steve Coleman and Henry Cole.   Since 2007, Jonathan has received a total of 9 composition competition placements, 9 grant/commission receipts, 6 residency invitations/placements, 4 trumpet competition placements, 4 workshop invitations and 3 educational conference invitations from the following organizations: Broadcast Music Inc., the Banff Center, the School for Improvisational Music, the Amsonia & Hermes Music International Composition Contest, the Unsigned Only Music Competition, Chamber Music America, the International Songwriting Competition, the ASCAP Foundation, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance, the International Trumpet Guild, United States Artists, the University of Colorado Boulder Music Advisory Board, the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, the Actors Fund/Local 802 Musicians Union, the Jazz Foundation of America, the Recording Academy/MusiCares, the Keio Light Music Society, the International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers, Chashama, the Millay Colony,  the National Park Arts Foundation, the Jazz Education Network, the Association for Popular Music Education, the International Society for Improvised, and Downbeat Magazine.