Jon grew up in a musical family and began studying the violin and piano at the age of nine. He gravitated towards playing the string bass when he was eleven and the classical guitar at thirteen. He studied with renowned teacher Ed Flower of Ithica College for five years and Richard Provost of the Hartt School of Music for a year at which point he joined a German rock band and toured the U.S. and Germany for two years. Jon settled in the Berkshires in his early twenties and has made a living as both a performer and music educator. Jon has continued to study informally with Ben Verdery of the Yale School of Music, working on baroque and Balkan musical styles and his own compositions. He has appeared on numerous albums as a sideman, played for various productions of Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals, and toured with several different groups.