Jon Visanji studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and is a versatile freelance violinist, equally at home in an orchestra pit for a show, to performing on live national television. He has performed with some of the UK’s top symphony and pit orchestras including BBC Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony and English National Ballet, and also in the pop and session world, performing and recording with a range of popular music artists, including Jennifer Hudson, Tom Walker and Richard Hawley, One Direction and Girls Aloud. He has recorded soundtracks and appeared in some film and TV series, most recently in the film The Death of Stalin and the latest series of The Crown on Netflix.