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Biography

Jordan Moore is a euphoniumist, ocarinist, hornist, arranger, and online content creator. Best known for his one-person wind ensemble cover of Lugia’s Song, Jordan produces YouTube videos of his own arrangements of mostly classical, anime, and video game music. Additionally, Jordan recently graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a degree in euphonium performance and music education. Jordan maintains a busy schedule pursuing his musical goals as a YouTuber, performer, and recording musician.

Jordan began playing euphonium at age 10, but quickly became interested in learning other standard wind ensemble instruments. By age 15, he was self-taught in trumpet, trombone, tuba, saxophone, clarinet, and flute. In that time, Jordan also began making his YouTube videos, utilizing many of the instruments he was learning. Despite playing all of these, he always loved euphonium and decided to pursue a degree in it.

At Eastman, Jordan performed in and arranged for a variety of ensembles. Between the Wind Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Musica Nova, Tuba Mirum, Trombone Choir, Brass Guild, Jazz Workshop Ensemble, Schola Cantorum, and Collegium Musicum, Jordan performed on euphonium, trombone, horn, bass trumpet, sackbut, recorder, and voice. In addition, he participated in many chamber ensembles such as tuba quartets and brass quintets. Jordan was also the founder and director of the Eastman Ocarina Ensemble. The highlight of his performance career at Eastman was the Wind Orchestra’s performance of David Maslanka’s 5th Symphony, in which the third movement is essentially a 9-minute euphonium concerto. In regards to Jordan’s performance, David Maslanka said “Your euphonium soloist was terrific. Please give him my thanks and congratulations - the best rendition of that solo I have heard.”

On his YouTube channel, Jordan has two primary goals: 1) to show that underrated instruments, such as euphonium and ocarina, can play serious and beautiful music, and 2) to show that video game music and anime music can be just as complex and intimate as classical music. These two values are reflected in most of Jordan’s current videos, and he hopes to continue catering to a wide audience of people who are fans of either ocarina, brass instruments, classical music, anime and video game music, or some combination of these.