New York City based trumpeter Joseph Boga is sought after as a performer in both jazz and classical genres. He has performed professionally in a wide variety of venues, from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to Birdland Jazz Club and the Newport Jazz Festival, across the United States and abroad. 

Boga is a member of the legendary ensemble Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, specializing in music of the 1920’s and 30’s, and leads his own small ensemble, The Scranton Ramblers. In addition, he performs regularly with highly acclaimed artists and ensembles including Stephane Wremble, Gordon Webster and his Band, Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band, Adrian Cunningham, Wycliffe Gordon, David Ostwald and the Louis Armstrong Eternity Band, James Langton and the New York All-Star Big Band, the Kyle Athayde Dance Party, the Nate Sparks Big Band, and many others. 

Classically he has performed with a variety of orchestras and small ensembles as a soloist and as an ensemble player, including The International Contemporary Ensemble, The New York Trumpet Ensemble, The Garden State Philharmonic, The Bucknell Wind Ensemble, and The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, among others. 

An avid educator, Boga has offered masterclasses and clinics nationally and internationally. In 2023 he was the director of the Pennsylvania Music Educator Association’s All-State Jazz Band, comprised of some of the most talented young musicians in the state. 

Boga was a student of Wynton Marsalis, and is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he studied with Mark Gould, Chris Jaudes, and Joe Magnarelli.