Percussionist Gunnery Sergeant Jonathan Bisesi of Orchard Park, N.Y., joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in May 2004.

Gunnery Sgt. Bisesi began his musical training at age 8. After graduating in 1996 from Orchard Park High School, he earned a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in 2000, and in 2002 received a master’s degree in music from Boston University. His percussion instructors include Allen Otte of CCM and Timothy Genis of Boston University.

Prior to joining “The President’s Own,” he was a teaching associate in percussion at Boston University and a fellow of Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Mass.

Gunnery Sgt. Bisesi performs with the Marine Band and Marine Chamber Orchestra at the White House, in the Washington, D.C., area, and across the country during the band’s annual concert tour. Notable solos with the Marine Band include the Xylophone Rags of George Hamilton Green on tour in 2017, and at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in 2016; Pablo de Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen, Opus 20, on tour and at Wolf Trap in 2011; and The Golden Age of the Xylophone arranged by Floyd E. Werle and Randy Eyles in 2006. He also performed at the 2008 Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Austin, Texas, as a member of the Marine Band percussion quartet.