About

Violist Jordan Watt graduated from the Juilliard School where he completed his Master of Music degree with Paul Neubauer. He received his Bachelor of Music Degree under Dr. Catharine Lees and Timothy Lees from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a Cincinnatus Presidential Scholar. He also studied with Dr. Paula Krupiczewicz and Hannah Howard.

Jordan is avidly dedicated to helping his students improve by tailoring each lesson to each specific student. He has taken pedagogy courses from Professor Thomas Cabaniss and Dr. Sarah Wittekind. Additionally, Jordan has informed his performance and practice by taking lessons with performance psychologist Dr. Noa Kageyama and neuroscientist Dr. Molly Gebrian. These studies informed his efficient, neuroscience informed approach to teaching.

He has been a Pacific Music Institute Teaching Fellow where he led sectionals and classes for the Hawaii Youth Symphony members and performed throughout Oahu and Molokai. With the Bergamot Quartet, he has performed and taught as a faculty member at the Wildflower Composers Festival in Philadelphia. 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.” He currently teaches with the William Pu Music Academy.

Jordan’s performance career highlights include performing in the European American Musical Alliance’s 2024 Resident String Quartet in Paris, France, Rencontres Musicales Internationales des Graves Faculty Series in Bordeaux, France, Southern Illinois University & Carbondale Community Arts Chamber Music Series in Illinois, winning the Nancy F. Walker Scholarship Encouragement Award, and winning the CCM Viola Concerto competition. Jordan has performed alongside New York City Ballet principal dancers at the Jerome Robbins Dance Festival and begins his career as a section violist in the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra in December 2026. He has also performed with the Atlanta and Hartford Symphony Orchestras, Bergamot Quartet, violinists Nina Millet and Max Zorin, pianists Emile Naoumoff and Vincent Balse, bassist Esther Brayer, and violist Jacques Perez.