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Tom Jordan

• Tom Jordan designed and implemented the development of the Computer Lab for Music which incorporates synthesizers and software for music notation, improvisation, composition, and audio editing. Mr. Jordan graduated from Duquesne University with an Master of Music degree in music technology, and from Oklahoma Baptist University with a Bachelor of Music degree emphasizing choral composition. As a university fellow at Brown University, he studied with composers Ron Nelson, Paul Nelson, Gerald Shapiro, and Morton Subotnick.
  
  
• During his graduate studies at Duquesne, Tom developed several programs for music students. His work involves music production, sound games, educational tools, teaching online, multi-media, CD-ROM development, and more traditional composition, as well.
  
  
• While at Brown, Tom became the interim director of the MacColl Electronic Music Studios and lectured and performed with the New Music Ensemble of Rhode Island. He taught at Butler University and the University of Dayton. He was composer-in-residence for Indianapolis Public Schools for four years and continues to be actively involved in composition for kids throughout Kentucky and Ohio.
  
  
• In addition to teaching composition and music technology courses at NKU, Tom is active as a composer, arranger, and choral director. His choral works are represented by Shawnee, Lorenz, and Alliance publishers. Recent commissions include a new choral work for choir, flute, and strings; and a suite on tunes of the British Isles for harp, flute, and cello.
  
  
• Tom's work in the electronic music field is noted for his large scale public events incorporating projected dancers, lasers, fireworks, balloon sculptures, floating sound systems, arc welders and a flaming 60-foot dragon. His various, site-specific creations have utilized gardens, rivers, and a canyon of city buildings with audiences from 3,000 to 30, 000. Sites for his events have included the Scioto River in downtown Columbus, Ohio; Main Street Mall in Fort Worth, Texas; and Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Ohio.
  
  
• Among the many organizations that have performed his music are Dance Kaleidoscope, Indiana Repertory Theater, Looking Glass Theater, The Village Waytes, voicebox, Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church, the Western Ohio Conference of United Methodists, the Bison Glee Club of Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee Choral Society, Lyrica Trio, Ouachita Singers, and the Brown University Orchestra. Mr. Jordan is a member of ASCAP, MENC, and ACDA.