Jordan Nobles

JUNO award-winning composer Jordan Nobles is known for creating music filled with an “unearthly beauty” (Mondomagazine) that makes listeners want to “close (their) eyes and transcend into a cloud of music” (Discorder Magazine).

Jordan has won numerous awards for his work including a JUNO Award for ‘Classical Composition of the Year’, a Western Canadian Music Award, the International Composition Competition of the Unbound Flute Festival (Brisbane, Australia July 2016); the Sacra/Profana (San Diego 2013) , Vancouver Bach Choir (Vancouver 2008), and Polyphonos (Seattle 2011) International Composition Competitions. He placed 2nd in the International Soli fan tutti Kompositionswettbewerbs in Darmstadt, Germany and was a finalist in the C4 Choir Composition Competition in New York., as well as has been chosen to be performed in Wrocław, Poland at the International Society for Contemporary Music’s 2014 World Music Days.

In 2017, Jordan was the recipient of the Jan V. Matejcek Award from SOCAN “in recognition of his overall success in New Classical Music” and was honoured with the Barbara Pentland Award of Excellence for his “extraordinary contribution to Canadian Music”.

Jordan was named the 2009 Emerging Artist in music from the City of Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Awards. His string orchestra work Aurora was the CBC’s official entry at the UNESCO International Music Council’s International Rostrum of Composers in Lisbon, Portugal.

"Technically, there was no other word for it than that much overused modifier awesome."

Georgia Straight — Vancouver, BC

"…breathtakingly beautiful sounds."

The Daily Gleaner — Fredericton, NB

"…an experience of profound emotion."

Kitchener Waterloo Record — Kitchener, ON

"..the most devastating work I’ve heard in a long time. It comes at you in ripples of heart-breaking melancholy that you only gradually acknowledge as such—you find yourself sad, then sadder, than closer to tears, then struggling not to sob, and not really knowing why. I was crushed by it…"

Definitely the Opera — Toronto, ON

"It was a huge success…The audience was in trance and we got a standing ovation in the middle of the concert!!!!"

Michael Zaugg, conductor, Choeur Saint-Laurent — Montréal, QC

"And just such a unique experience was provided, with spectacular effect, by Vancouverite Jordan Nobles‘ A Sign in Space, which scattered the musicians to the far, jagged corners of the Crystal to surround us with music of unearthly beauty. Specially written for the day, Nobles’ piece was as perfectly at home in the ROM’s Crystal as Gabrieli in St. Mark’s Basilica. And the museum-goers were caught in their tracks as they drifted in from neighbouring rooms: spellbound, they stood and spun around slowly, trying to place the sources of the sound. How long was it, ten minutes? Thirty? Time was suspended; I could have sat for hours."

Mondomagazine — Toronto, ON

He continues to receive many National and International performances and commissions. He is a member of the Canadian League of Composers and an Associate of the Canadian Music Centre.

Recent projects included commissions for a spatial work for large wind symphony for Arizona State University, a work for soprano and chamber ensemble for the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, a concert length spatial work for the Surrey Youth Symphony, and a new commission for the Standing Wave ensemble.

Awards & Achievements

2018

Nomination for Surface Tension Western Canadian Music Awards “Classical Composition of the Year” (Kelowna, BC)

2017

Jordan was honoured with the “Barbara Pentland Award of Excellence” from the Canadian Music Centre (Vancouver, BC)

Immersion was awarded ‘Classical Composition of the Year’ at the 2017 Western Canadian Music Awards (Edmonton, AB)

SOCAN’s Jan V. Matejcek Award in recognition of overall success in ‘New Classical Music’ (Toronto, ON)

Immersion is the winner of the 2017 JUNO Award for ‘Classical Composition of the Year’ (Ottawa, ON)

2016

International Composition Competition of the Unbound Flute Festival (Brisbane, Australia)

2014

Lux Antiqua chosen to represent Canada at the ISCM’s World Music Days (Wrocław, Poland)

2013

1st Prize Sacra/Profana International Composition Competition (San Diego, USA)

2012

Nomination for Simulacrum Western Canadian Music Awards “Classical Composition of the Year” (Regina, SK)

2011

1st Prize Polyphonos International Composition Competition (Seattle, WA)

2nd Place International Soli fan tutti Kompositionswettbewerbs (Darmstadt, Germany)

C4 Ensemble Composition Competition (New York, USA - Honorable Mention)

2010

Aurora selected to be presented to the International Rostrum of Composers (Lisbon, Portugal)

2009

Still Life chosen to represent Canada at the International Society for Contemporary Music’s World Music Days

Named the 2009 Emerging Artist in Music at the Mayor's Arts Awards, (Vancouver, BC)

2008

1st Prize Vancouver Bach Choir National Competition for Large Choirs (Vancouver, BC)

JUNO award-winning composer

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Space will be limited to only 3 students per teacher, for advanced students only. All masterclasses will be hosted at the Oakridge Park Gallery.

September 15

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