Jordan Scott holds a Bachelors of Voice and Philosophy from the College of Charleston and is currently the graduate assistant to Dr Alan Held chair of the opera department at WSU. He has a lifelong passion for music and grew up playing violin, piano, and singing in boys choirs. He spent his early singing career as a professional cathedral chanter and now performed in symphonies, ballets, operas, and musicals. He has premiered operas funded by the NEA, works by the internationally recognized composer Dan Forest, and most recently the US premier of How Great Thou Art by Ian Mulder commissioned by King Charles for his coronation. For the last few years he taught not only voice, but helped run Shakespeare and Theatre outreach programs for school children throughout the South East. Though he mostly performs classically he has experience singing and teaching jazz, musical theater, rock, pop, and country. He performs regularly in German, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, and has also done work in Russian and Portuguese.
"I have taught both music and theater, and my goal is always the same: helping my students develop as an individual artist. Within every student there is an artist waiting to emerge. My goal is not to replace the vision you have for yourself as an artist, but to give you the tools necessary to realize the artist that is already in you. Seeing my students apply the technique I teach to the various genres they are passionate about so they can develop the voice they want to have is always my goal."
