Jesse Feinberg comes from a long line of pianists. He began playing piano at age 3. When he was 7 years old he won his first piano competition. He went on to win the Merritt Scholarship 3 years in a row followed by hundreds of piano competitions. When he was 12 he was accepted into the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and toured Scandinavia with Yo-Yo Ma. After his first round of college he toured the world performing on cruise ships in the early 2000’s. In 2003 he founded a Jazz department at Nutmeg Conservatory in CT, and he became a full time dance accompanist for Boston Ballet Theatre Company in 2007.
In 2009 Jesse moved to Maine and attended the University of Maine, Augusta where he began teaching at The Portland Conservatory of Music as a Jazz and Classical piano teacher. In 2014 Jesse became the music director for a church in Bath, Maine. In 2015 Jesse and his co-author Greg Hall were signed and published by the American Composers Alliance through a teaching book. Jesse played the piano in front of over 8,000 people at the Jewish Awards Ceremony in Moscow, Russia 2019. Jesse has toured the United States with his personal band with his wife, The Feinbergs and has played on his own and with several Jazz and classical musicians including Bruce Hornsby, Archie Shepp, Will Lettman, Neo, Shaggy, PanNeubean Steel, and Tony Vacca.
Jesse moved to Boston in 2022 where he began teaching at the Real School of Music in Burlington, accompanying piano at Tony Williams Ballet Studio. He currently resides in a suburb of Boston with his dog Monty and spouse, artist, C. Marlo Feinberg.
Jesse has studied at University of Maine at Augusta, Mannes School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, Juilliard, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Holyoke Community College.