James Jordan is an associate professor of conducting at Westminster Choir College of Rider University-Princeton and the founding conductor of the Westminster Voices. He is also a visiting distinguished professor of music education at West Chester University. He is the author of Evoking Sound: The Choral Warm-Up, The Musician's Soul, and The Musician's Spirit and the editor of several choral series that bear his name. He lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania.