Jordan Klapman is a professional popular music history lecturer, pianist, bandleader, music director, composer, and silent film accompanist. He teaches continuing education courses in music history at several universities and colleges, including Ryerson’s LIFE Institute, George Brown College, LLIR at Glendon College, The Miles Nadal JCC, The Royal Conservatory of Music, Hot Docs Curious Minds, and numerous other learning centres throughout Ontario and beyond.
A professional musician equally at home in jazz clubs, concert halls, and theatres, he’s appeared at Roy Thomson Hall accompanying performances with The Seniors Jubilee, the largest talent showcase in North America — and on CBC radio and television as well as JazzFM as a pianist, recording artist, and radio show co-host with the late Jeff Healey.
Jordan currently lectures and performs over two dozen music lecture series that indulge his love of the greatest popular music of the 20th century—including the music of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, The History of Jazz, The Great American Songbook, The Big Band Era, The History of Silent Film Accompaniment, The Gatsby Era, The Harlem Renaissance, The Brill Building songwriters, The Great Broadway Songwriting Duos, The Great Popular Singer/Entertainers, and 1960s Pop, Rock and Folk music.
