Jordan Bowers

Master of Music Degree in Applied Music Cincinnati Conservatory(Lovely Old Campus at Highland and Oak)1953.Winner of Experimental Opera Theatre of America Award in 1955 and sang roles at the New Orleans Opera. Sang in New York on Television(Voice of Firestone, Bell Telephone Hour, Jimmy Dean Show etc.) and Broadway and Production contracts. Soloist, Radio City Music Hall and Baritone Soloist, Agnes DeMille's Heritage Dance Theatre. Conducted choral groups at Newberry College. South Carolina, Lodi High School in New Jersey, and University of Nevada in Las Vegas.Many regional contracts with leads in ME AND MY GIRL,MAN OF LA MANCHA, KISS ME KATE, BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS,etc. Off-Broadway as Harpagon in Moliere's THE MISER,Shaw's MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION(Rev. Samuel Gardner),Strindberg's PLAYING WITH FIRE(The Father) and others. Performed in the national company of MY FAIR LADY and later as Mark Twain in BIG RIVER. Previous resident of Los Angeles where I acted on TV(Boy Meets World, Beverly Hills 90210, Arliss, The Bold and the Beautiful, Matlock, etc.) and film for the last twelve years. Have moved back east to New Jersey and am now the choir director at the Hammonton Presbyterian Church in Hammonton, NJ. I am very proud of the choir and we have an excellent organist.Last Sunday(April 17, '05) My choir gave a concert. We performed Faure's Requiem and my piece, Mary's Little Boy and my arrangements of Abide With Me and Amazing Grace. My old friends from The Jimmy Dean Show sang with us and Jimmy Dean attended the concert. There was not a dry eye in the house.I began composing some years ago and became more interested recently. I've decided to compose more until I decompose.