Jonathan Kay

Jonathan Kay is an internationally recognized cross-cultural jazz multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, esraj, shakuhachi), hailing from Toronto, Canada. In search of non-western ways of musical knowing, he moved to Kolkata, India, and for 10 years formally studied North Indian Raga music and innovated its expression on the saxophone. Jonathan has also traveled on two occasion to learn Japanese shakuhachi music in Kyoto.
Jonathan is a PhD student in the department of East-West Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco under the mentorship of Dr. Debashish Banerji. He has been studying East-West philosophies of music, which have facilitated a more integral understanding of his contemplative artistic practices.