A recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Professional Musicians, violinist Jessica Tong has performed as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and orchestral player across Canada, the United States and Europe. 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 also awarded the David Ouchterlony Award for Most Promising Young Pianist afterwards. This led to performances at venues such as the Roy Thompson Hall, Glenn Gould Centre for the Performing Arts and the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts. By the age of fourteen, she was the Grand Prizewinner in the Canadian Music Competitions as a violinist. Shortly after, she went on to win concerto competitions with the Waterloo Chamber Orchestra, the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra and the Oshawa-Durham Symphony Orchestra, and was invited to reappear as a guest soloist with all three orchestras, as well as with the Toronto Philharmonia and the Pickering Philharmonia in their following seasons.

A passionate chamber musician, Jessica has already had the opportunity to work with artists such as Cho-Liang Lin, Midori Goto, Leon Fleischer, Leone Buyse and Courtney Orlando from the critically acclaimed ensemble Alarm Will Sound, as well as members of the Cleveland, Concord, Brentano, Guarneri, American and Leipzig 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. She has performed on behalf of the Peabody Institute at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. as a part of the Kennedy Conservatory Project- a concert series designed to feature rising artists from the top ten American music schools.

Jessica is currently pursuing a graduate diploma under full scholarship with Pamela Frank at 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.