NEWS
2025: Awarded a residency at the prestigious Château de La Napoule near Cannes, France (Spring 2026)
2025: Dory Hayley, soprano releases Jordan’s composition XYZ on her new album: i love evil
2025: Blueridge Chamber Music releases a recording of Jordan’s 𝞹on their new album: Gather Round
2025: The Frozen Light Photography Exhibition presented at the Centennial Theatre, North Vancouver
2025: The Frozen Light Photography Exhibition presented at the Murray Adaskin Salon
2025: Carl Petersson releases a recording of Jordan’s Selene Suite on his new disc: Magical Moon
2025: Standing Wave releases a recording of Jordan’s Echo Chamber on their anniversary album: SW/30 LiveTracks
2024: Chiaroscuro was selected to represent Canada at the ISCM Festival and was performed by the Aldubáran Ensemble June 28, 2024 in Klaksvík, Faroe Islands.
2024: The Night Sky, a new album is released of solo harpist Janelle Nadeau performing 88 constellations
2023: ICOT releases a recording of Jordan’s 30 Crows on their new album: Recurrence
2023: Awarded the prestigiousAzrieli Prize for Canadian Music (Montréal, QC)
2022: Nominated for Classical Composer of the Year, Western Canadian Music Awards (Calgary, AB)
2021: Catherine Lee releases a recording of Jordan’s Nocturne on her JUNO nominated album: Remote Together
June 2021: Released an interactive, online video installation work, Atmospherics. A series of four compositions for spatialized or isolated ensemble co-commissioned by the Arizona State University’s Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble.
May 2021: The Apollo Initiative – a collective of BC youth orchestras recorded a new work by Jordan, commissioned and composed specifically for the 350 young musicians of the participating ensembles to prepare and perform collectively in a digital format.
April 2021: An interactive video installation, Y, was released, commissioned and performed by Dorothea Hayley https://redshiftmedia.org/y/
October 30, 2020: Redshift Music created a COVID Isolation project resulting in an extended recording album release of Lagrange Point and an interactive video installation https://redshiftmedia.org/lagrange/.
July 1, 2020: Chiaroscuro, a new album featuring 27 musicians performing large chamber ensemble works, was released to great reviews.
August 2019: A new recording,Infinity Mirror, was released on August 23, 2019.
October 2018: Jordan released the multiple piano improvisation CD, Fingerpainting.
July 2018: Möbius, a sparse, ambient CD, was released on July 11, 2018.
May 2018: Jordan received his third nomination for Classical Composition of the Year by the 2018 Western Canadian Music Awards.
May 2018: A new CD of music for multiples, Rosetta Stone, was released on May 31, 2018.
May 2018: Jordan received his third nomination for Classical Composition of the Year by the 2018 Western Canadian Music Awards.
November 2017: Jordan, along with the Ethos Collective and guests, released a new CD entitled Surface Tension.
October 2017: Jordan was presented with the CMC’s Barbara Pentland Award of Excellence for his “extraordinary contribution to Canadian music.”
September 2017: Jordan won a 2017 Western Canadian Music Award for Classical Composition of the Year.
June 2017: Jordan was presented with SOCAN’s Jan V Matecjek Award “in recognition of his overall success in New Music.”
April 2017: Immersion won the 2017 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year!
BIOGRAPHY
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 throughout his career including the distinguished Azrieli Music Prize (2024), a JUNO Award (2017), a Western Canadian Music Award (2018), the International Composition Competition of the Unbound Flute Festival (Brisbane, Australia 2016), the Sacra/Profana (San Diego 2013), Vancouver Bach Choir (Vancouver 2008), and Polyphonos (Seattle 2011) International Composition Competitions.
Jordan was the recipient of the Jan V. Matejcek Award (2017) 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.
His 100+ compositions have been performed around the world by orchestras, ensembles, and choirs.
He lives in Deep Cove, BC with his wife Kelly, and daughter Julian.
Awards & Achievements
2024 – Chiaroscuro was chosen to represent Canada at the ISCM’s World Music Days (Faroe Islands)
2024 – Awarded the 2024 Azrieli Prize for Canadian Music (Montréal, QC)
2023 – Nomination for Western Canadian Music Awards ‘Classical Composer of the Year’ (Calgary, AB)
2018 – Nomination for Surface Tension Western Canadian Music Awards ‘Classical Composition of the Year’ (Kelowna, SK)
2017 – Canadian Music Centre’s Barbara Pentland Award of Excellence for his ‘extraordinary contribution to Canadian Music’ (Vancouver, BC)
2017 – Immersion WINS ‘Classical Composition of the Year’ at the 2017 Western Canadian Music Awards (Edmonton, AB)
2017 – SOCAN’s Jan V. Matejcek Award in recognition of overall success in the ‘New Classical Music’ (Toronto, ON)
2017 – Immersion is the WINNER of the 2017 JUNO Award for ‘Classical Composition of the Year’ (Ottawa, ON)
2016 -1st Prize 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)
2011 – 2nd Place International Soli fan tutti Kompositionswettbewerbs (Darmstadt, Germany)
2011 – 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
2009 – 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)
REVIEWS
“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
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