Jon has been playing professionally for over 20 years and has enjoyed a diverse and distinguished musical career that has made him a very versatile performer and musician. His first professional job was at the age of 15 playing lead guitar with a function band which toured throughout England and Scotland. Soon after, he enjoyed a very busy career as a session musician and recorded with a number of very renowned musicians and bands. He toured throughout Europe with a number of ensembles, and one of the highlights was performing at the Royal Palace in Monaco as special guests of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier.
From 1995 to 1997 Jon was resident guitarist at the Cafe Royal's Green Room which hosted many artistes such as Patti Boulaye, Alan Price, George Melly, Cybil Shepherd and Rita Coolidge to name but a few. He was also busy as a touring musician with artistes
of varied backgrounds such as David Soul, Gwen Dickey (lead singer of the band Rose Royce), Francisco Yglesias from Los Paraguayos and El Adivinio, a Spanish Gypsy band of Rumberos.
As busy in the recording studio as he is performing, he also enjoys teaching, composing, arranging and musical production. He recently worked with the composer Stuart Sharpe on a song that was performed exclusively on stage by Madonna and has also recorded with David Soul, Maria Kesselman (Phantom of the Opera), as well as written music for film and
TV - most recently "The Proposal" which was premiered at Cannes Film Festival. He is also very busy as a vocalist and guitar soloist, performing at Weddings and Corporate functions.
He has been performing at weddings for over 15 years and his repertoire includes music from Classical, Jazz, Popular and Spanish genres. He also works as a soloist with backing tracks covering a wide range of styles singing in English, Spanish and
Portuguese.