He received his Bachelor of Music Degree in Viola Performance under Dr. Catharine Lees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) as a Cincinnatus Presidential Scholar and Nancy F. Walker Encouragement Award recipient. He has previously studied with Dr. Paula Krupiczewicz and Hannah Howard.

He has been a Pacific Music Institute Teaching Fellow where he led sectionals and classes for the Hawai’i Youth Symphony members and performed throughout Oahu and Moloka’i. Through the American Viola Society, he has presented a lecture recital on errata and his piano transcription of Tania Leon’s Para Viola y Orquesta and was published in the spring 2023 journal for his scholarly work “Commentary on Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Lament.”

Jordan has recently performed with France’s Rencontres Musicales Internationales des Graves in Bordeaux, France and the European American Musical Alliance’s Resident String Quartet in Paris, France as well as the Southern Illinois University & Carbondale Community Arts Chamber Music Series in Illinois. He has collaborated with artists such as violinists Nina Millet and Max Zorin, pianists Emile Naoumoff and Vincent Balse, bassist Esther Brayer, and violist Jacques Perez. Additionally, he has performed with the Chamber Music Institute at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, Ascent International Chamber Music Festival and the CCM Opera Bootcamp in Cincinnati, Ohio, the National Orchestral Institute in College Park, Maryland, and soloed with the CCM Philharmonia as a winner of the CCM Viola Concerto Competition. He has also been a substitute with the New World Symphony, Orchestra Kentucky at Bowling Green, Kentucky Symphony, and Springfield Symphony.

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Violist Jordan Watt recently graduated from the Juilliard School where he completed his Master of Music Degree under Paul Neubauer.