- The School Choral Program: Student Motivation DVD
- Music for Conducting Study
- Dialogues, Vol. 2
- Dialogues, Vol. 1
- The Anatomy of Conducting: Workbook and Study Guide
- The School Choral Program
- Evoking Sound: The Choral Rehearsal, Vol. 2
- The Anatomy of Conducting
- Innisfree:
Choral Music of Hope, Dreams, and Living - Listen!
- Evoking Sound-The Choral Rehearsal
- Evoking Sound: The Choral Warm-Up Modal Exercises
- Evoking Sound-The Choral Conductor's Aural Tutor
- Teaching Music through Performance in Choir Vol. 1
- Teaching Music through Performance in Choir Vol. 2
- Evoking Sound-The Choral Warm-up
- Evoking Sound-The Choral Warm-up, Teaching and Rehearsal Cards
- The Musician's Walk
- The Musician's Spirit
- The Musician's Soul
- The Musician's Soul: Meditations
- Learn Conducting Technique with the Swiss Exercise Ball
- Ear Training Immersion Exercises for Choirs
- Choral Ensemble Intonation: Method, Procedures, and Exercises
- Evoking Sound VHS: Body Mapping Principles and Basic Conducting Technique
- Evoking Sound
- The Singer's Ego by Lynn Eustis, Foreword by James Jordan
- Achieving Choral Blend Through Standing Position
- The Structures and Movement of Breathing
James Jordan
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Widely acknowledged as one of the most influential conductors in America, James Jordan,
through his seventeen textbooks and recordings, has brought about far-reaching pedagogical and
philosophical changes not only in choral music, but also in the worlds of orchestral conducting,
wind conducting, piano, and music education. The Choral Journal has described his writings as
“visionary.” Renowned American composer Morten Lauridsen dedicated the third movement of
his Midwinter Songs to him. One of the country’s leading choral artists, Dr. Jordan is Senior
Conductor at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, where he conducts the Westminster
Williamson Voices and the Westminster Schola Cantorum, and teaches undergraduate and
graduate choral conducting. Over thirty works have been premiered by the Westminster
Williamson Voices, including the works of Mantyjaarvi, Custer, Ames, Hill, Whitbourn, Henson,
and Wilberg. Dr. Jordan also conducts Anam Cara (www.anamcarachoir.com), a professional
choral ensemble based in Philadelphia that has received critical acclaim for its recordings. The
American Record Review wrote that Anam Cara “is a choir to please the fussiest choral
connoisseur” and called their inaugural recording, Innisfree, “skillful and shining,” “glowing,”
“supremely accomplished” with a “tone that produces a wide range of effects from vocal
transparency to rich, full-throated glory.”
Dr. Jordan is one of the country’s most prolific writers on the subjects of the philosophy of music
making and choral teaching. His trilogy of books on the philosophy and spirituality of
musicing—The Musician’s Soul, The Musician’s Walk, and The Musician’s Spirit—have made a
deep and profound impact upon musicians and teachers around the world. His latest projects
include a new text, The Choral Rehearsal, Volume 2: Inward Bound, which deals with all aspects
of score preparation, as well as a DVD, The Anatomy of Conducting, with Eugene Migliaro
Corporon, conductor of the Wind Symphony and Regents Professor of Music at The University
of North Texas. This DVD uses state-of-the-art animation to assist musicians in learning
anatomically correct conducting technique.
Dr. Jordan is also Executive Editor of the Evoking Sound Choral Series (GIA), which now
includes over seventy published works. In addition, he teaches and delivers over thirty
workshops and keynote addresses each year in addition to an extensive conducting and guest-
conducting schedule. Among his most recent engagements were a residency at Houston Baptist
University and appearances at the North Carolina American Choral Directors Association
(ACDA), Wisconsin Music Educators National Conference (MENC), Michigan ACDA,
Pennsylvania/Delaware Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), Chorus America, and
Arizona ACDA, as well as presentations and workshops at The University of Buffalo, The United
States Army School of Music, and The Curtis Institute.
Dr. Jordan’s lecture/teaching schedule and writings are detailed on his Web site
(www.evokingsound.com) and his publisher’s Web site (www.giamusic.com/jordan).