Jey Ping began learning the violin as a young child from his father and has enjoyed playing ever since. Through high school and college, he studied with Yuly Ilyashov and trained through his school orchestra program, the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra, and the Missouri All-State Orchestra. He performed with the Ladue Strolling Strings on multiple tours through Europe, Branson, Washington D.C., and state dinners. Jey received the Lois Percival Orchestra Award during his senior year in high school. He is an alum of the Masterworks Festival and served as concertmaster of the Washington University Symphony Orchestra, Washington University Chamber Orchestra, Young People's Symphonic Orchestra, and St. Louis All Suburban Orchestra.

After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Economics, Jey continued to keep music a part of his life, on top of his job working at SAP. He worked as a part-time violin teacher at Ladue and Mehlville and led the Ladue Strolling Strings. He has served as concertmaster of the Jacksonville Symphony Society and as principal second violin with the Town and Country Symphony Orchestra.

Today Jey lives near Johnson City, TX and continues to study and play as many different styles of fiddling as he can get his hands on, drawing inspiration from fellow musicians at folk schools, shows, fiddle festivals, jam sessions, and dances. He regularly plays jazz shows at The Ragtime Oriole in Marble Falls, TX and plays 6-string fiddle and mandolin in Country and Western bands in the hill country. He plays in community orchestras such as the San Antonio Community Orchestra, Fredericksburg Community Orchestra, and Heart of Texas Orchestra. Jey is also the substitute organist for multiple churches in Blanco County.

Messiah - George Frideric Handel - December 2021

Overture:


Comfort Ye, Every Valley:

Amarillo by Morning - May 2023

Cwm Rhondda, Mostly Paul Manz improvization

See What a Morning - Keith Getty and Stuart Townend - April 2020

Viva La Vida - Coldplay - October 2022

Sheet Music - (PDF) Arrangement for 6-string violin on loop station

Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi - June 2022

Don't Stop Believin' - Journey - May 2021

Beauty and the Beast - Tale as old as time - June 2022

Sheet Music - (PDF) Arrangement I put together to work the range of the 6-string violin.
Youtube - Video

Youtube Playlist - Advent, Christmas, and Bach duets on loop station - October 2022

Crazy Train guitar solo - Ozzy Osbourne - May 2022

Sweet Child of Mine - Guns N' Roses - April 2014

Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas - July 2008

2.9MB 100-kbps MP3

Telemann Concerto in C Major for 4 Violins

Grave - June 2008 (1.1MB 130-kbps MP3)
Allegro
Largo - June 2008 (1.5MB 130-kbps MP3)
Allegro - July 2008 (Youtube Video)

Blessed Be Your Name - Redman (2.2MB MP3) - 29th of May, 2008 (130-kbps MP3)

Hymns - Summer 2008 (130-kbps MP3)

Holy, Holy, Holy - (1.8MB MP3)
Crown Him With Many Crowns - (1.6MB MP3)

Bach Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004

Allemanda - January 2023 (Youtube)
Allemanda - Summer 2007 (60-kbps MP3)
Corrente - Summer 2007 (60-kbps MP3)

Some other music clips:

• Ciaccona, Joshua Bell - (96-kbps MP3) As an experiment he played at a subway station in Washington DC. You can't buy a recording of him playing this, and to think that people just walked on by on their way to work one morning.
• Interview with Joshua Bell - (96-kbps MP3) This feature I heard on XM Radio starts out with him playing Praeludium and Allegro, and goes into almost all of what's interesting about Joshua Bell.

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