APPLICATION MATERIALS
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.
In 2017, Jordan was the recipient of the Jan V. Matejcek Award from SOCAN in recognition of “overall success in ‘New Classical Music”. He has released 11 albums of his compositions and has been performed around the world by orchestras, ensembles, and choirs.
He lives in Deep Cove, BC with his wife Kelly, and child Julian.
Jordan Nobles’ Curriculum Vitae
Music Composition Samples
COMPOSITION SAMPLES
SOLO PERFORMER SAMPLE
The Architect’s Dream – for solo piano
Duration: 5 min.
SCORE
Suggested Listening excerpt:
Starts a bit slow, I’d jump to about 1 minute in.
* The Architect’s Dream was the commissioned work for the Architecture of Music Festival and Competition (Vancouver 2022)
SMALL ENSEMBLE SAMPLE
Simulacrum – for chamber ensemble
Duration: 4-8 min.
SCORE
Video Performances:
MolOt-ensemble (St. Petersberg)
Artemis (Canada)
* Released on the album Undercurrents by Contact Contemporary Music (Toronto)
* Released on the album …ohme zu wissen warum!? by Soli Fan Tutti (Darmstadt)
* Nominated as ‘Classical Composition of the year’ at the 2012 Western Canadian Music Awards
* Awarded 2nd prize at the International Soli fan tutti Kompositionspreis in Germany – May 2011
CHOIR with HANDBELLS
Stasis – for choir – utilizing handbells, humming voices, whistling, and ‘singing bells’ (which are played by running a wooden dowel around the bells’ rims)
Duration: 5 min.
SCORE
Suggested Listening excerpt:
2:00 – 4:00 min. (Sections 2-4)
Jordan Nobles 