Jordan Nobles

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Jordan Nobles
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Jordan Nobles in rehearsal
Background information
BornDecember 11, 1969
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Genres Contemporary classical
Occupation(s)Composer
Years active1996–present
Website jordannobles.com

Jordan Nobles (born December 11, 1969) is a Canadian composer who specializes in creating spatial music and open instrumentation compositions. His music is performed worldwide and has won several international and national awards including the 2017 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year. [1]

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Early life and education

Nobles was born in Surrey, British Columbia, and grew up in Edmonton and Beaverlodge, Alberta; and Kelowna and Vancouver, British Columbia.[ citation needed ] He studied at Grant MacEwan University (1988–1991) and Simon Fraser University.[ citation needed ]

Career

Nobles is a founding artistic director of Vancouver's Redshift Music Society, [2] [3] an organization founded in 2001 which commissions and premieres new works by Canadian and international composers, and of Redshift Records, the recording division of Redshift Music, which released its first CD in 2007 and now has approximately 40 releases, focussing on contemporary music. [4]

In addition to winning the 2017 Juno for Classical Composition of the Year, [1] Nobles won the SOCAN Jan V. Matejcek New Classical Music Award in 2017, [5] the 2017 Western Canadian Music Award for Classical Composition of the Year, [6] and the 2017 Barbara Pentland Award of Excellence from the Canadian Music Centre.

Style

Nobles' music is spatial and immersive, with the musicians surrounding the audience. [7] It is often composed to be performed in atypical locations including an underground concrete bunker, [8] [9] atriums, rotundas, a swimming pool, [10] [11] the Vancouver Public Library building [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] and other large open reverberant spaces.

Selected works

Discography

Awards and nominations

JUNO Awards

Classical Composition of the Year

Western Canadian Music Awards

Classical Composition of the Year

Classical Composer of the Year

Other awards

Jan V. Matejcek Award from SOCAN in recognition of "overall success in 'New Classical Music'"

Canadian Music Centre, BC Region - Barbara Pentland Award of Excellence for his "extraordinary contribution to Canadian Music"

Polyphonos International Composition Competition (Seattle, WA)

Mayor's Arts Awards (Vancouver, BC)

See also

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  2. ↑ "Redshift Music Society". Redshift Music Society. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Board and Staff". Redshift Music Society. January 18, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
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  11. ↑ "Sinking of the Titanic - Gavin Bryars" . Retrieved February 11, 2020– via Vimeo.
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