Professional Trumpet Player, Composer, & Educator
Adjunct Instructor of Trumpet, Villa Maria College
Music Teacher, Global Concepts Charter School
Artistic Director, The Jay/Sharptet
JACOB JAY is a professional trumpet player and music educator in Buffalo, NY. He is a graduate of SUNY Buffalo State, where he received a Bachelor of Music in Music Education with a Minor in Digital Music Production, and the University of Arkansas at Monticello where he received a Masters of Music in Jazz Studies. While at UAM, Jacob was awarded the Outstanding Band Award at the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival in Elmhurst, Illinois as a member of UAM’s Jazz One ensemble.
As an educator, Jacob is the Band Director at Global Concepts HS, Adjunct Instructor at Villa Maria College, and Brass Instructor for the Pappy Martin Legacy Jazz Collective’s Love Supreme School of Music.
Jacob also works for the Honors Performance Series by WorldStrides for programs in NYC at Carnegie Hall; in London, England at the Royal Festival Hall; and in Sydney, Australia, where he performed at the Sydney Opera House. Jacob is endorsed as a REMIC® Microphones Artist.
