Jean Jordan
Clinician

Jean Jordan is Professor Emeritus at The University of Mississippi, where she directed the Women's Glee Club and teaches voice. After receiving two degrees in music from the University of Illinois she continued her studies at the Juilliard School and the Academy of Music in Vienna, Austria. Professor Jordan taught elementary and junior high school choral music for five years in the public schools of Illinois and Iowa. She began her college teaching career at the University of Northern Iowa and has been at Ole Miss for the past 22 years. Professor Jordan is a specialist in the development of voices in the choral rehearsal. She has made numerous appearances as a clinician at ACDA conventions, All-State and Honor Choirs, summer workshops, music camps, and choral festivals. The Women's Glee Club made its Carnegie Hall debut and was featured at the Mississippi State Convention of the American Choral Directors Association in 1997. In the spring of 2000, they performed at the Southern Regional Convention of ACDA and were again featured at the ACDA National Convention in San Antonio in 2001. On three different occasions the choir has performed Carmina Burana with the Atlanta Ballet and orchestra and has sung several major works with various orchestras in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fischer Hall in New York. The Women's Glee Club took its first overseas tour in March 1999. The group traveled to England and France where it sang in the Sunday Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral and participated in two choral competitions, winning first prize in both the Worcester Competitive Arts Festival and the Brighton and Hove Competitive Music Festival. The Women's Glee Club also has distinguished itself in appearances with the Mississippi Symphony, Memphis Symphony, and other regional orchestras.

An active professional, soprano soloist, Mrs. Jordan made her New York recital debut in 1989 in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. In 1987, she sang Handel's Israel in Egypt with the American Symphony Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall. The same year, she was the Southern Regional winner of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Awards Vocal competition. In 1990 she toured Mexico with the Bajio Philharmonic. She sang in the New York Premiere of Jonathan Wilcock's "Come Rejoicing!," and in other Carnegie Hall engagements, she performed Rutter's Requiem twice under the direction of the composer and was also the soprano soloist in Faure's Requiem with the Manhattan Philharmonic. Most recently, she performed as guest soloist with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. She has performed a number of times with the Mississippi Symphony and the Memphis Symphony.