Jordan E. Spivack - (Nanuet, New York)

Jazz - http://www.jordanesp.com

Jordan Elliot Spivack is an award-winning composer/lyricist who lives in Nanuet (Rockland County), NY, where he is a full time private piano, theory and composition teacher, as well as the Music Coordinator and Accompanist at Rockland Learning Center Montessori School.  Born in Brooklyn, NY, he started piano lessons at 5 years old after his parents discovered that he had the gift of music composition.  At 10 years old he studied piano and music theory at Cornell University, where he was privileged to meet Aaron Copland and Nadia Boulanger. While in high school in Cortland, NY, he was a member of the rock band The Creation .  After receiving a BM from Ithaca College, he went on to receive his MM in composition, theory and piano from Indiana University.  Since then he has written numerous pop and folk songs (including "The Very Best In Me", with beautiful vocals by Dre Mazzenga)", new age, jazz and classical compositions, 2 musicals for children, the opera, "A Better Way", with libretto by Joseph P. Lanzone, and is the composer/lyricist of The Red Ribbon Theme Song, “Hands Across The Universe”, which has been learned and performed by over 15,000 students K–12 in New York State in the past 13 years.

Songs:

Romance On Moonlit Bay
Jordan ESP
         Groove 2 U         

Change is Good    (Shimmer Album)
Indian Summer     (Shimmer Album)
Shimmer              (Shimmer Album)
Snoop                  (Shimmer Album)
Syntax                 (Shimmer Album)

Blowpop                 (Think Lovely Thoughts)
The Miracle Of Life  (Think Lovely Thoughts)
Drift                      (Think Lovely Thoughts)
Dance Me              (Think Lovely Thoughts)
Kaleidoscope         (Think Lovely Thoughts)