Professional jazz trumpet player, bandleader and composer; Leader of the Peter Kenagy Octet, the Mad Monkfish Jazz Orchestra and other small groups, with albums and recordings available on streaming platforms, and over 100 published compositions and arrangements; Jazz Studies faculty at the New England Conservatory; Professor, Berklee College of Music, teaching ear training and music history; Additional teaching at MIT, MassArt, Holy Cross, and NEC Prep; Conductor, clinician and adjudicator in MMEA and collegiate festivals; Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, student of Tito Carrillo and Ronald Romm, winner of Nicholas Temperley Award for Excellence in a Dissertation; M.M. in Jazz Studies at the New England Conservatory; B.M. in Jazz Studies at the New England Conservatory, student of Charles Schlueter (Boston Symphony Orchestra) and Bob Brookmeyer; 8th summer at E/C.