Jonathan Carney is a violinist, violist, and conductor noted for his interpretations of Luciano Berio, Michael Nyman, Max Bruch, Johannes Brahms, Jean Sibelius, Felix Mendelssohn, John Cage, Bruno Maderna, Pablo Sarasate, Fritz Kreisler, Krzysztof Penderecki, Paul Hindemith, Philip Glass, Toru Takemitsu, and Antonio Vivaldi. His parents and all three of his siblings are graduates of the Juilliard School of Music, where Carney studied with Christine Delthier and Dorothy Delay. He then moved to London on a Leverhulme Fellowship Award to study at the Royal College of Music.