Lucas Jordan

An innovative flutist and composer in search of ever growing expressivity in both fields, Lucas Jordan crosses musical boundaries and redefines them with the aim of reconnecting music with today's society. This desire has lead to projects and collaborations, such as "Concerti in Giardino", “The Invisible Cities Project”, “dsharpgents | re:staging music”, and “Wenn heute sich mit gestern vermischt”, and “das kurze festival - edition number one”.

After winning the “Audience’s Choice Prize” of the Composition Competition of the Camerata Zurich he has been commissioned several new works, which have been performed throughout Europe and Asia. His interest in collaboration lead to the soundtrack for the documentary film “One Girl” directed by Rosa Russo, which is gaining recognition in film festivals worldwide. As a composer he explores the expression of non-musical concepts through music and expanding musical expression through gestures and connection to other art forms. This resulted in the opera “God Save the Tea” in collaboration with theater director Irene Ros and produced by cutmoose and premiered at the “Tête à Tête” festival in London.

As a flutist he has performed throughout Europe and the Americas working closely with international musicians, dancers, poets and composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Jörg Widmann, Mario Ferraro, Klaus Huber, Isabel Mundry along with many emerging composers. He was a founding member of the Dialoge Company Berlin/Zurich, that researched the intersections of improvised music and dance. He was assistant to Matthias Ziegler at the University of Arts Zurich, Switzerland, and later Teaching Assistant and Premier Flautist at “William Bennett’s International Flute Summer School”. Since then he has given workshops and masterclasses in Italy, Portugal, Switzerland Colombia and Brazil. He currently collaborates with guitarist Fabricio Mattos, with whom he forms the Jordan Mattos Duo and pushes the boundaries of what a flute and guitar duo can express.

Born in Brazil and having lived in the USA, Brazil, Switzerland and England, Lucas Jordan studied at the Zurich University of Arts, Switzerland with Matthias Ziegler, Philippe Racine (flute) and Isabel Mundry, Andreas Nick and André Bellmont (composition) and the Royal Academy of Music, London with William Bennett (flute). He is grateful to have been awarded generous scholarships from the LYRA Stiftung, Alfred und Isle Stammer-Mayer Stiftung, momento stiftung (Switzerland) Golsoncott Foundation, Mazzini Garibaldi Foundation (UK).

2020: Delusional Nature - Short Film (Presented at Long Minute - The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, South Africa)

2018: One Girl - Documentary Feature Film (Best Documentary Feature at the MasterDoc Intl Film Festival, USA; Best Educational Film at the Berlin Filmmaker IFF of World Cinema, Germany; and Best Family Film at the Family, Kids, Social Film Festival, USA)