Jordan Alexander

A native to South Carolina and graduate of College of Charleston with a B.A. in Music, pianist Jordan Alexander resides in Mount Pleasant where he is an active teacher, composer and participant in Charleston's eclectic musical atmosphere. Jordan began to play piano at the age of five and began formal study of the piano at the age of seven with Wes Revels — later to also seriously study the guitar and viola, playing in various ensembles in and around Charlotte, NC.

Jordan studied composition at College of Charleston under the direction of Dr. David Maves, Dr. Trevor Weston, and Dr. Edward Hart. He has also studied interactive scoring for video games under composer Michael Sweet through the Berklee College of Music. He studied classical piano under the direction of Dr. Douglas Ashley, himself a student of the great Maria Curcio. Other principle teachers have been Dr. Irina Pevzner and Dr. Paolo André Gualdi.

In 2009, Jordan was a participant in the Grumo Festival in Grumo Appula, Italy, and a 2011 alumnus of the Brevard Music Center summer festival in North Carolina. A well known multi-instrumentalist who is comfortable across many genres of music, Jordan teaches not only rigorous training in classical piano, but is also equally acclaimed for guitar instruction, composition, digital audio engineering, and a growing army of songwriting students and composers. H

e has himself composed large numbers of commercial compositions for both video and radio advertisements. His students have gone on to win full scholarships at prestigious musical institutions, record in professional music studios, and perform extensively in local venues in the Charleston area.