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Jessica Tong • Violin
As recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Professional Musicians, violinist Jessica Tong has performed as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician in some of the world's most prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and the Gewandhaus of Leipzig. Always the versatile instrumentalist, she began her musical studies on the piano at the age of three, but discovered a fascination for the violin soon after.
By the age of ten, she was named the youngest winner of the Toronto Symphony Solo Piano Competition and was awarded the David Ouchterlony Award for Most Promising Young Pianist. By the age of fourteen, she was the Grand Prizewinner in the Canadian Music Competitions as a violinist, and has since then appeared numerous times as a soloist with the Waterloo Chamber Orchestra, the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra and the Oshawa-Durham Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Philharmonia. Most recently, she was a prizewinner of the 2009 Eckhardt-Gramatté String Competition, resulting in a nationally broadcast performance on CBC Radio.
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A passionate chamber musician, Jessica has collaborated with artists such as Pamela Frank, Cho-Liang Lin, Courtney Orlando from the critically acclaimed new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound, as well as former members of the Concord, Cleveland, Brentano and Mendelssohn Quartets. She is an equally strong advocate of contemporary music, having performed in the Syzygy and Musiqa concert series in Houston, as well as the CAGE ensemble in Baltimore. She performs regularly in the Evolution contemporary music series as well as for An Die Musik Live! and is a member of the Ensemble Ulysse chamber series. This past season, she made her quartet debut in Weill Recital Hall along with performances and masterclasses in New York City, Baltimore, Toronto, Pennsylvania and the Berkshires and live radio appearances on WVIA-Pennsylvania and WAMC Northeast Public Radio. For the upcoming season, she will be appearing in performance throughout the United States, Canada and Europe as the first violinist of the Vinca String Quartet.

Jessica is currently pursuing a graduate diploma under full scholarship with Pamela Frank at the Peabody Institute. She has also studied with Kathleen Winkler at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and worked with Zhang yun Zhang, Donald Weilerstein and Milan Vitek. She currently plays on an 1851 Rafaele e Antonio Gagliano, generously provided by the Peabody Institute.

 

 

 

 

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