At the age of nine, Jordan Rudess entered the prestigious Juilliard
School of Music for
classical piano training. By nineteen, he began to
include the rapidly developing world of synthesizers in his recordings
and performances. Today, Jordan is a recording artist, composer,
producer and performer.
Voted Best New Talent in the 1994
Keyboard Magazine Readers Poll Keyboardist category after the release of
his solo album, "Listen," Jordan is the newest member of the group
Dream Theater. Jordan has played with guitarist Steve Morse and the
legendary
Dixie Dregs. He has recorded and toured with guitarist Vinnie
Moore, written songs for, and recorded, with singer Annie Haslam
(Renaissance), and has recorded tracks with
David Bowie. Additionally,
he has toured internationally with fellow keyboardist Jan Hammer and
legendary drummer Tony Williams, has appeared in concert with Enrique
Iglesias, and regularly performs and records with
Grammy award winners,
the Paul Winter Consort. His scoring can be heard with International
Magician of The Year winner, Jeff McBride.
Jordan formed a two
piece "power duo" with Dregs drummer Rod Morgenstein after joining him
in the Dregs. The project, dubbed the Rudess Morgenstein Project (RMP),
is a high powered
progressive rock duo of keyboards and drums. Their CD
was released by Domo Records worldwide.
Jordan can be heard
along with Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Patrick Moraz, playing
Chopin's Revolutionary Etude on 'Steinway to Heaven,' a Magna Carta
release, featuring rock Keyboard virtuosos playing piano classics.
Before joining Dream Theater in January 1999, Jordan connected with
John
Petrucci and
Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, bassist Tony Levin of King
Crimson and Peter Gabriel notoriety, and recorded two albums with
"Liquid Tension Experiment." He can be heard on two performances within
"Encores Legends and Paradox" with drummer Simon Phillips, Violinist
Jerry Goodman and Producer Robert Berry. These releases are also on the
Magna Carta label. In October 2001, Jordan released his rock solo album
entitled
Feeding the Wheel on the Magna Carta label. It features guest
musicians Terry Bozzio on drums, Billy Sheehan on Bass, guitarists Steve
Morse and John Petrucci, Vocalist Barry Carl, Violinist Mark Wood and
Eugene Freisen on Cello.
Dream Theater's double album, entitled
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, was released worldwide in January
2002, which followed their previous studio release, the highly acclaimed
"Scenes From a Memory." Six Degrees is available in stores now, from
the Elektra Entertainment Group.
The New York performance of
Scenes from a Memory, performed at the Roseland Ballroom is available
through Elektra Entertainment on DVD, and is entitled "Metropolis 2000
Scenes from New York." It is also released as a triple CD set format
entitled "Live Scenes from New York." In the wake of the album's
release, Dream Theater embarked on the World Tourbulance world tour.
Jordan recorded keyboard tracks for David Bowie's album entitled Heathen which was released on David's own Iso Records in June 2002.
Jordan's solo album 4NYC was released in April of 2002
and is dedicated to New York. It is released on Magna Carta Records.
The album is a recording of a concert that took place on September
25th, as well as studio recordings that took place right after the
tragedies of September 11th 2001. Jordan and his wife Danielle Rudess
produced the solo concert and raised $12,000 for the American Red
Cross.
In the summer of 2003, Jordan toured with Dream Theater around the US
with Queensryche and Fates Warning during the lead up to the release of
the bands next album.
In the fall of 2003, Jordan released his third studio album with Dream
Theater, Train Of Thought. Dream Theater's 2004 world tour culminated
in Japan where they filmed a live show at Budakon for a concert DVD
release. That summer, Dream Theater toured with the band YES throughout
the United States. 
source:
http://www.jordanrudess.com/
