Born in Celle, Germany, Jon Yerby began studying percussion at age 5 before becoming acquainted with the guitar.  His teachers and mentors include such luminaries as Eliot Fisk, Oscar Ghiglia, John Gibbons, Tom Johnson, Adam Holzman, and Bruce Holzman. Yerby has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at venues across North America including New England Conservatory’s prestigious Jordan Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum and countless venues ranging from the Françoys-Bernier Concert Hall at Domain Forget in Quebec, Canada to the Brau-House in Hot Springs, Arkansas. In 2008 Yerby was awarded a full scholarship and graduate assistanceship to begin doctoral studies at FSU after having completed his master’s degree with Eliot Fisk at New England Conservatory with the named Sofie and Henry Mydans Foundation Scholarship. Currently Jon is  concertizing and serving as adjunct professor of guitar at Tallahassee Community College while finishing his graduate studies at FSU.  Yerby is the director and founder of Seven Hills Guitar Series and is a director with the Classical Guitar Society of Tallahassee.