Jonathan Jacky is a freelance musician, independent recording artist, producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist currently active in the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. He has a background as a classically trained trumpeter, receiving his Bachelor’s of Music (BM) in performance from Wright State University (Dayton, OH) in 2017, and a Master’s of Music (MM) in performance from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in 2019. Throughout his collegiate and professional career, Jonathan has played a variety of musical ensembles including wind symphony, orchestra, jazz band, trumpet choir, traditional-style brass band, New Orleans-style brass band, various small chamber wind ensembles, indie rock bands, and multiple collaborations with piano accompanists when performing solo trumpet works.

Jonathan’s hallmark trumpet performing achievement thus far came in the fall of 2016 when he won Wright State University’s School of Music Concerto Competition performing Alexander Artunian’s Trumpet Concerto in Ab. Jonathan was the featured soloist on a concert the following spring semester in 2017 where he performed the work with the Wright State University Orchestra under the direction of the internationally renowned faculty violinist/conductor Dr. In-Hong Cha. Other notable performing achievements include advancing as a finalist in Wright State School of Music honors recital in his junior and senior years (‘16,’17) and singing baritone with Wright State University’s Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall in New York City in February of 2014 for the group’s performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria.