DR PETER JEBASEELAN JESUDASON was born in Penang and began playing the violin at the age of six. He studied at Wellesley Primary School, Penang and Anglo-Chinese School, Ipoh. 

 He completed his secondary education at Bryanston School, UK where he was a music scholar ( past scholars have included Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Mark Elder and Mark Wigglesworth ). 

 He read Medicine at Cambridge and pursued his musical interests and education in parallel with his medical studies. Whilst at Cambridge, he formed the Cambridge Chamber Orchestra, tackling major works of the symphonic repertoire and accompanying distinguished soloists in concerto performances. 

 He has taken part in numerous concerts as conductor, violin soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player. He was 1st violin in the Liverpool Mozart Orchestra ( President Sir Simon Rattle ) and the Endellion Festival Orchestra ( Director Sir Richard Hickox ).

 In Malaysia, he has conducted the National Symphony Orchestra and founded the Malaysian Symphony Orchestra in 2001, conducting a Royal Charity Concert with the orchestra featuring the 1987 Leeds International Piano Competition prize winner, Noriko Ogawa. 

More recently in 2017, he conducted the Selangor Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto with 16 year old Penang boy, Vincent Ong. Vincent has gone on to achieve international fame by being a prize winner in the 2025 Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland.