Yes, you can improve your voice. A great voice teacher not only gives you critical, constructive feedback, but helps you find the right tools, goals and motivation to keep going.
Jordan’s students have performed on Saturday Night Live, The Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, American Idol, and on Broadway. She is equally proud of the students who sing in the shower, and local coffee houses. Jordan trained in the bel canto singing technique with Juan Oncina and Tatiana Menotti in Barcelona, Spain. As a performer she has sung over 50 opera roles around the world, including Violetta in La Traviata, Rosina in Barber of Seville, Norina in Don Pasquale, Musetta in La Boheme, Nedda in Pagliacci, Susanna in Marriage of Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Gilda in Rigoletto.
Synthesizing her decades of teaching and performance experience with the vocal science, she is able to give each singer a singular lesson experience, tailored to the singer’s needs and challenges. Jordan brings an absolute passion for teaching, and a patient, loving heart to all of her students.
“Teaching vocal technique is quite literally, my calling; as in “ding-dong”, you’re a voice teacher. In my early days of moving to New York, I found myself working a stable and well-paying job at investment bank, yet felt deeply devoid of purpose. Music had been put on the back burner while my days were filled with ticker-tape stock prices. One day, my roommate made me take a job satisfaction quiz. Quizzes can be so inane, yet I completed it. According to the quiz (found in What Color Is Your Parachute), I was born to be a music teacher. I admitted to my roommate that prior to moving to NYC, I taught voice lessons because it made me truly happy.
At that very moment, the doorbell rang. It was a Western Union telegram. (This was 1999) It read that my very first tenor student was singing with his choir at Carnegie Hall, and that he was given the tenor solo. My heart was pounding. What a coincidence! It became clear in that moment what I was meant to do, be the best singing teacher I could possibly be.
Thanks to the dedicated teachers, researchers and scientist at the Vocal Foundation, The National Association of Teachers of Singing, The New York Singing Teachers Association, and the Acoustical Society, there is always more to study, and deeper layers of vocal understanding to penetrate.”
VOICE TEACHERS WHO INSPIRE
Jordan studied in Barcelona with Juan Oncina and Tatiana Menotti. She has also studied with Judith Natalucci, Kari Ragan, Davida Kagan and Ruthanna Metzgar, Michael Warren, Joshua Greene, Susan Morton, Chris Fecteau, Wilson Southerland, Peter Mark, and Pamela Cassells. She continues to coach and study with William Vendice and Dean Williamson, among many others.
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A very special thanks to all of my teachers, and to the Voice Foundation