A vibrant creative mind, Jonas Labhart is a composer and saxophone performer at ease in a variety of musical styles.

After studying Saxophone performance and pedagogy at Berklee College of Music and HMT Zurich, Jonas moved to New York to study Jazz Composition with Jim McNeely and Rich DeRosa. During his three year long stay he not only obtained a Masters of Music in Jazz Composition but was also a member of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop and conducted his piece's world premiere for Big Band at Merkin Hall.

Jonas lives in Zurich and performs in Switzerland and Europe with “A.S.A.P.” (with David Potaux-Razel, Stéphane Cochet and Julien Augier), “Dharmalarm Trio” (with Marco Nenniger and Samuel Dühsler) and many more as a sideman. As a composer his work ranges from jazz arrangements for orchestra to classical works for quarter-tone trumpet. He teaches saxophone at the Musikschule Zürcher Oberland and music software at the departement itpool of ZHdK.