Jordan Klapman is a professional music educator and performer. A versatile solo and ensemble pianist, accompanist, bandleader, music director, composer, arranger, vocal coach and recording producer, he has more than thirty years’ worth of experience performing many different genres of music, ranging from jazz standards of The American Popular Songbook and Broadway, to Latin, R&B, classic pop, and Jewish music of all kinds.
Jordan performs extensively at music festivals, jazz clubs, concert halls, and theatres throughout the Toronto area, across Canada, and internationally, and he’s performed as both a soloist and accompanist at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall for numerous performances of Seniors’ Jubilee, the largest talent showcase in North America. He’s also appeared at Koerner Hall and The Richard Bradshaw Theatre at the Canadian Opera Company, and nationally on CBC radio and television. Jordan also worked with the late Jeff Healey as a co-host of Healey’s My Kinda Jazz radio programme on JazzFM.
Educator
Mr. Klapman’s is a music educator and he currently presents several original popular music history lectures and lecture series throughout Toronto and beyond at universities, cultural centres, private residences, churches, synagogues, and schools. For more than a decade, he has lectured at venues ranging from Ryerson University’s LIFE Institute, to the Miles Nadal and Prosserman JCCs, to numerous community centres, and continuing education groups.
Jordan leads several of his own bands, performing and has recorded with many of Canada’s top award-winning jazz, cabaret, and pop musicians including Adi Braun, Judy Marshak, Sharon Smith, Donna Greenberg, Tony Quarrington, Tim Boyle, Warren James, Ken Whiteley, Heather Bambrick, Christopher Plock, Julie Michels, Henry Heillig, Tom Skublics, Glenn Anderson, Tony Quarrington, Jonno Lightstone, Bill Bridges, Tanya Wills, Ron Johnston, John MacMurchy, Steven Cole, and many others.
