Jordan Randall Smith

Jordan Randall Smith has led groundbreaking performances as Music Director of Symphony Number One (the 2019 American Prize Winner), and is the former Director of Orchestras at Susquehanna University, and a co-founder and Creative Director of the International Florence Price Festival. Jordan's leadership of Mahler's fourth symphony was praised by the Baltimore Sun: "The third movement, in particular, was quite sensitively molded." 

A former Bruno Walter Fellow at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Smith recently received 2nd Place in the American Prize in Conducting. He has recorded four critically-acclaimed albums and led over 50 world premieres. 

Jordan is a student of Marin Alsop. He has mentored hundreds of young musicians across the country as a conductor of youth orchestras and public school ensembles. Jordan gave a TED Talk at TEDxMidatlantic 2017 and was a contributor to Baltimore Magazine.