Jonathan Shin performs extensively as a soloist and chamber musician, as well as composes and improvises across multiple genres and styles.

A prizewinner of Singaporean and international competitions, Jonathan was awarded top prizes in all four age categories of the National Piano and Violin Competition. In 2010, he was the youngest winner ever of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music’s Piano Concerto Competition, where The Straits Times lauded him as “a supremely confident young man, whose perfect conception of ‘Sturm und Drang’ was only matched by the elegance and crispness of the playing… every note was well judged and delivered with conviction.”

At 22, he began composing. In 2015, his musical Viva! la Singapura was produced. The following year saw the premiere of his song cycle The Other Merlion and Friends, where it was critically reviewed as “probably the most compelling and worthwhile new work from any Singaporean composer in recent years.”

While at Longy School of Music, Jonathan won both the Orchestral Composition Competition and the Concerto Competition.  His first orchestral work Heloise and Abelard premiered in the spring of 2018, shortly after he performed Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with the Longy Conservatory Orchestra. Jonathan has been conferred the Patricia Sherman Award, an award given each year to a student of “great accomplishment who possesses an exemplary attitude and record of contribution to the Longy community”; and the Roman Totenburg Award, which recognizes “stellar academic and artistic achievement and honors the embodiment of deep commitment to perpetuating the art of music.” In October 2019, he was awarded the Emerging Artist Award by the St. Botolph Club, a Massachusetts-based foundation; in the same month, his 1819 Suite, commissioned for the Singapore Bicentennial, was reviewed to be “supremely confident and comfortable in its own skin.” (The Straits Times)