Jordan P. Smith is a New York based saxophonist and conductor. His teachers have included Dr. Paul

 Cohen, Dr. John Sampen and Kathleen Mitchell, and conducting with Dr. William Silvester. In the summer of 2007, Jordan traveled to Corfu, Greece where he gave several performances of solo and chamber works, and premiered Evolutions by Marilyn Shrude for the Corfu Festival Saxophone Ensemble. He was winner of the 2006-2007 TCNJ Concerto Competition and later performed Tomasi's Ballade for Saxophone and Orchestra with the TCNJ Orchestra. Mr. Smith was also a selected soloist for the 2008 NYSMF recital series and a featured soloist with the NYSMF saxophone ensemble.

Recently he has performed multiple times with The New World Symphony, The MSM Orchestra, the Brooklyn College Orchestra, and the French Woods Orchestra. Recent performance venues have included the Metropolitan Museum of Art, St. Peters Citigroup Center in NYC, Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center, the Professional Children's School, Yale University, and the 2009 North American Saxophone Alliance Region 8 conference at West Virginia University. As an orchestral player he has performed works by Prokofiev, Copland, Bernstein, Gershwin, and more under such conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas, Robert Spano, and H. Robert Reynolds. As a chamber musician in New York City, he has premiered works by composers such as Hayes Biggs, Remy Le Boeuf, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Matthew Hough. Mr. Smith recently premiered the Sonata for Tenor Saxophone and Piano by Steve Cohen written for Mr. Smith, a saxophone quartet work entitled PollyPiano by Tamara Cashour, and a work for tenor saxophone entitled Reverie, Interrupted written for Mr. Smith by composer/pianist James Adler. Jordan will soon be heard on Carrier Records for the premiere recording of Inhyun Kim's Saxophone Quartet.

Jordan P. Smith is currently a D.M.A candidate at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University where he studies with Dr. Paul Cohen. He holds an M.M. degree in Saxophone Performance from Manhattan School of Music (2010) and a B.M. in Music Education from The College of New Jersey. Mr. Smith has appeared as guest saxophonist with the Ridgewood Concert Band and Redeemer Presbyterian Church and is currently on faculty at the French Woods Festival for the Performing Arts where he teaches theory, conducts the saxophone ensemble, and is the private saxophone instructor. He is also a faculty member of the Mason Gross School of the Arts Extension Division, where he teaches saxophone. In 2010 Jordan joined the faculty of Hunterdon Academy of the Arts to teach saxophone lessons and piano lessons.