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Canadian-born Jonathan Chan began playing the violin and piano at the age of 4.  By the age of 8 he had made his first appearance with an orchestra and has since performed throughout Europe, England, China, South Africa and across North America.  He was invited to perform in the retirement concert for former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, at the Air Canada Centre in the company of the late legendary pianist Oscar Peterson.  Jonathan is a three-time National Grand Prize winner of the Canadian Music Competition and in 2012, recipient of the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Award; an award given to the most gifted musicians below the age of 30 in Canada.  Jonathan is currently doing advanced studies at the Guildhall School of Music and on both violin and piano.  Jonathan’s violin was made in 1715 by Dominicus Montagnana, and is on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank.