Flute, Clarinet, and Saxophone
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Jordan Morack is currently an active performer, recording artist, arranger and teacher in the greater Nashville area. Jordan plays the saxophone, clarinet and flute and is fluent in many styles ranging from rock, pop, R&B, jazz, and classical performance. His performance credits as a sideman include The General Jackson Showboat, Downtown Band, The Cumberland County Playhouse, Studio Tenn Theatre, Jimmy Bonnilla Band, The Duffy Jackson Big Band, The Nashville Repertory Theatre and many more. Jordan also leads his own projects like his band Cerulean Soul and the Beasley Court Big Band.
Jordan studied music performance with a focus in Jazz studies at MTSU where he received education in playing a multitude of different styles and ensembles. He studied privately with the applied faculty at the university on all of his woodwinds as Jordan strived to play each instrument equally well. While he is now finished with school, Jordan is still hungry for knowledge and regularly takes lessons with the many phenomenal musicians that populate music city and abroad. In addition to teaching at Prescott South Middle School, he is teaching woodwinds at Chewning School of Music and Smyrna HS. Jordan’s teaching philosophy is to nurture an authentic love of music through the methodical and inspired study of an instrument. Jordan’s students study and improve many aspects of their musicianship such as finger technique, tone production, Composition, arranging, improvisation, and musicality. Many of his students have been selected for honors such as: Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, Mid-State, All-State, and the Interlochen Summer Arts Academy. |
Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Euphonium, and Tuba
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William "Bill" Boyd studied horn first with his father, John M. Boyd Sr., followed by Oren A. Henning. He received a BA in Music from the University of South Florida, where he studied horn with Ward O. Fern, followed by Ralph O. Froelich.
Bill has taught horn at Hillsborough Community College and the University of Tampa, as well as several middle and high schools in the Tampa Bay area. Many of his students have gone on to perform and teach music professionally. Bill has played with several orchestras in the Tampa area, a brass quintet, Ensemble de'Cors, a horn quartet, as well as the Sarasota Concert Band. He currently performs with the Cumberland County Community Band, the Cookeville Community Band, the Southern Stars Symphonic Brass, the Clarion Brass Quintet, and the First Baptist Church of Cookeville |
