Biography
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Jordyn Carmen (b. 1995) is an American composer, theorist, and educator based in Bozeman, Montana. She received an MM in Music Education and a BM in Music Composition and Theory with a concentration in Film Scoring from New York University. She completed her doctorate in Music Composition at The Juilliard School in 2024 and now serves on their faculty, teaching Music Theory and Ear Training in the Extension Division. Previously, she has also served on the faculty of the Juilliard College Division, Fordham University, Juilliard Pre-College, the European-American Musical Alliance, and Bader College at Queen’s University. While pursuing her degrees, she studied with Robert Beaser, Christopher Rouse, Justin Dello Joio, and Joseph Church.
Carmen began studying music at the age of eight, discovering a passion for composition soon after exploring every instrument she encountered. As a composer, Carmen’s works have been performed in the United States and Asia, notably by the AXIOM Ensemble, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Oregon Wind Quintet, and the Cassatt String Quartet. She was awarded the Robert Crafter Igor Stravinsky Grant for Composers in 2024 and received the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2023. She has received commissions from the New Juilliard Ensemble, New York University, Summit High School, and the Aspen Music Festival, which she attended in the summer of 2021. The Sylvan Winds performed her quintet, “Carnival Lost,” at the Cell in New York in February of 2020. She attended the New Music Workshop at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival under the direction of Martin Bresnick as a composer fellow in June of 2019, where her septet, “Thought Chatter,” was workshopped and premiered by the Norfolk Contemporary Ensemble. As the winner of the 2018 Juilliard Orchestra Competition, her orchestral work, "Berserker," was premiered by the Juilliard Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall at New York's Lincoln Center in February of 2019. In February of 2018, she attended the Chamber Music Symposium at Texas A&M as the winner of their composition competition, where the Oregon Wind Quintet performed her piece, “Carnival Lost.” In July of 2017, she attended the Composer’s Institute at the Seal Bay Festival as a composer fellow, where the Cassatt String Quartet premiered her work, “Train of Thought.” Additionally, she has had orchestral works read by the Manhattan Symphonie and the NYU Symphony Orchestra, in addition to two concert band works performed by the NYU Concert Band and the Grand Street Community Band. As an educator, Carmen taught Music Theory and Ear Training to undergraduate, graduate, and adult students at The Juilliard School from 2024-2025. After an incredible year, she and her husband fulfilled their dream of moving out West, and she continues to teach online in the Extension Division. She has also previously taught students ages 8-18 within the Juilliard Extension and Pre-College Divisions, and she ran the Musicianship Program as a Musician in Residence at Bader College at Queens University for three years. She was an adjunct professor at Fordham University teaching Music Theory and Analysis, and is on faculty at the European-American Musical Alliance Online Academy. She was a Teaching Fellow for the Ear Training and Music Theory Departments in the College Division at The Juilliard School while completing her studies. She has additional field experience as a student teacher in both high school and elementary school in New York City, working at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and the Harlem Village Academy East Charter School in 2017. Carmen has multiple years of experience teaching both in-person and online, using both fixed do and moveable do solfege. Carmen also currently teaches private lessons in ear training, music theory, composition, and beginning piano. She teaches both in-person in Bozeman and online through Zoom. To inquire about private lessons, feel free to contact her! As a theorist, Carmen finds particular interest in leveraging extended methods of analysis to explore the processes of composers. She completed her dissertation on a new theory of the atonal altered dominant as the foundation for Schoenberg's compositional exploration using a multi-tiered analytical approach. As a performing musician, Carmen doubles on bassoon, saxophone, flute, and clarinet. She has freelanced in New York for the Blue Hill Troupe and Utopia Opera as a member of their pit orchestras. Throughout her undergraduate studies, she was a regular member of the NYU Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, Concert Band, and chamber ensembles. She studied bassoon at New York University with Dr. Gina Cuffari and Prof. Michael Breaux. |
Featured Music:
Movement III of "Train of Thought" Performed by the Cassatt String Quartet July 2017 
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