Dr. Jonathan Ong

B.Mus, M.Mus, D.M.A

The Sydney based Pianist, Producer and Educator

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About Jonathan:

Jonathan completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance at USC’s Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, California, on full scholarship under the tutelage of Professor Kevin Fitz-Gerald, where he served as assistant lecturer. He completed his Bachelor of Music degree with 1st Class Honours on the Sony Foundation Scholarship at University of New South Wales.  Jonathan also attended the Banff International Keyboard Festival as a Young Artist on a full scholarship.  

He has a wide range of educational experience, teaching children from two years of age all the way to senior citizens in diverse contexts, ranging from preschools and retirement communities to university classes as well as privately. Jonathan has taught in some of Sydney’s best schools and universities and internationally as a guest lecturer with the California State Summer School for the Arts in 2021 and continues to tutor privately from his own studio. As a freelancing producer and sound engineer, Jonathan has worked with high profile clients such as LA Opera’s “Siegfried Exhibition” and has performed on stages in the US, the UK, and more recently across Australia as a Kawai Artist. These days Jonathan has taken the sum of these experiences and has become one of the top 50 live streamers in Australia, and in the top 1% worldwide on the platform Twitch.tv.