Jonathan Waxman completed a Ph.D. in historical musicology at New York University (GSAS) with a dissertation titled "Prefacing Music in the Concert Hall: Composer Commentaries, Program Books, and the Conflict over Musical Meaning" and a Bachelors of Music in Piano Performance from New York University (Steinhardt.) He is also currently on the faculty at Hofstra University and Five Towns College where he teaches classes in music history and music theory as well as graduate seminars in research methods and American music.
He has recently published an article in the journal Popular Music History which examined the influence of Ives's music on the film scores and concert works of Bernard Herrmann. As Vice-President of the Greater New York City chapter of the American Musicological Society, Jonathan has supervised several scholarly conferences for the society and has presented at the national meetings of the Society for American Music, and the American Musicological Society.