Ethos opens NewSound with soprano Jamie Jordan

The Ethos New Music Society at SUNY Fredonia presents the 11th annual NewSound Festival with a concert featuring versatile vocalist Jamie Jordan. The NewSound Festival is a month long showcase of contemporary music. The Ethos New Music Society, guided by Dr. Rob Deemer, explores the twentieth and twenty-first century music and will be hosting the concert.

The concert will take place in the Rosch Recital Hall on Friday, Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. It is free and open to everyone, including students, faculty, art lovers and community members.

At the concert, Jordan will be singing works by living composers including Michaela Eremiasoca, Zachary Wadsworth, Hannah Lash, Daniel Pesca, Eric Nathan as well as a song by Fredonia School of Music Professor Paul Coleman. The concert will come to an end with “Apparition,” a set of elegiac songs and vocalizes for soprano with piano playing by George Crumb. 

“Jamie Jordan is such a talented and brilliant musician,” says Deemer. “Ethos New Music Society couldn’t have asked for a more talented musician to kick off the festival. She has traveled, sung, and taught throughout the Midwest, Arizona, New York and Washington and has performed at venues such as Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Hall and The Harvard Club. Now she’s coming to Fredonia and we know it’s going to be a great concert.”

Jordan is a musician from Grove, Ill., specializing in twentieth and twenty-first century classical music. She earned degrees in Jazz Studies, Opera Performance and Music Education. Currently, she is an active performer with ensembles Musica Nova, Ossia and the Eastman New Jazz Ensemble. She has sung on numerous pre-concert lectures for the New York Philharmonic. Jordan also teaches music theory, music history, voice lessons and middle school choirs at School of the Arts, a Rochester City School for students grades 7 to twelve.

Upcoming festival events include an exhibit of 50 graphic notation scores with author Theresa Sauer, followed by a concert featuring soprano Tony Arnold with pianist Jacob Greenberg on Feb. 4. Flutist Lindsey Goodman is featuring a world premiere by SUNY Fredonia faculty Rob Deemer on Feb. 16, along with many more.