Jordan Nobles Explained

Jordan Nobles
Birth Date:December 11, 1969
Birth Place:Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Genre:Contemporary classical
Occupation:Composer
Years Active:1996–present

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]

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. He studied at Grant MacEwan University (1988–1991) and Simon Fraser University.

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] 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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR Jordan Nobles . The JUNO Awards. January 26, 2020.
  2. Web site: Redshift Music Society. Redshift Music Society. January 26, 2020.
  3. Web site: Board and Staff. January 18, 2017. Redshift Music Society. January 28, 2020.
  4. Web site: About Redshift Records. June 26, 2015. Redshift Records. February 11, 2020.
  5. Web site: SOCAN Awards SOCAN. June 18, 2018 . January 26, 2020.
  6. Web site: Centrediscs Releases Nominated for THREE 2017 Western Canadian Music Awards. Canadienne. Canadian Music Centre Centre de Musique. www.musiccentre.ca. January 26, 2020.
  7. Web site: Canadian Bands You Should Know: The strange and beautiful music of Jordan Nobles. Amplify. January 26, 2020.
  8. Web site: METRO VANCOUVER COLLABORATION WINS JUNO AWARD. Sinoski. Kelly. April 18, 2017. metrovancouver.org/. February 11, 2020.
  9. Web site: Crazy collaboration results in Juno for North Vancouver composer. www.cbc.ca/news.
  10. Web site: Surface Tension. YouTube. February 13, 2020.
  11. Web site: Sinking of the Titanic - Gavin Bryars. January 8, 2013 . Vimeo. February 11, 2020.
  12. Web site: Aeriosa Dance Society touches library skies with in Situ. March 10, 2010. The Georgia Straight. February 11, 2020.
  13. Web site: Videos. Aeriosa. February 11, 2020.
  14. Web site: Choral and Voice. April 17, 2014. Jordan Nobles - composer. February 11, 2020.
  15. Web site: Möbius. January 17, 2019. Vimeo.
  16. Web site: Cinquanta, live at Sound Symposium 2018. Youtube.
  17. Web site: Contact – Undercurrents. July 1, 2015. Redshift Records. January 28, 2020.
  18. Web site: Undercurrents - Contact performs the music of Jordan Nobles. November 2011. www.thewholenote.com. 2020-03-05.
  19. Web site: Jordan Nobles – Immersion. November 3, 2015. Redshift Records. January 28, 2020.
  20. Web site: Jordan Nobles – Surface Tension. January 11, 2017. Redshift Records. January 28, 2020.
  21. Web site: Jordan Nobles – Möbius. June 19, 2018. Redshift Records. January 28, 2020.
  22. Web site: Jordan Nobles – Fingerpainting. September 14, 2018. Redshift Records. January 28, 2020.
  23. Web site: Jordan Nobles – Rosetta Stone. March 19, 2018. Redshift Records. January 28, 2020.
  24. Web site: Jordan Nobles: Rosetta Stone. January 29, 2019. www.thewholenote.com. 2020-03-05.
  25. Web site: Jordan Nobles – Infinity Mirror. August 8, 2019. Redshift Records. January 28, 2020.
  26. Web site: 2020-03-01. Jordan Nobles – Chiaroscuro. 2020-07-07. Redshift Records. en.
  27. Web site: Previous Winners. BreakOut West. February 11, 2020.
  28. Web site: SOCAN Awards Shine Bright Lights on Canada's Music Creators and Publishers. SOCAN. newswire.ca. February 11, 2020.
  29. Web site: Latest Barbara Pentland Awards For Excellence. Bickerton. Sean. October 23, 2017. Canadian Music Centre BC. February 11, 2020.
  30. Web site: 2011 Winners. The Esoterics. February 11, 2020.
  31. Web site: Mayor's Arts Award for Music. Vancouver. City of. vancouver.ca. February 11, 2020.

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