Lee Jordan-Anders, Music Director

Lee Jordan-Anders is Professor of Music and Artist-in-Residence at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, Virginia. She received both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance from Northwestern University's School of Music in Evanston, Illinois.

In 1980 she moved to Madrid, Spain, where she pursued an active performing career both as a soloist and in chamber ensembles. After returning to Norfolk in 1986 she became a part of the Virginia Wesleyan College faculty, where she teaches courses in aesthetics, listening, music theory, chamber music, and piano.

She has performed with orchestras throughout the United States and Europe, including those in Atlanta, Chicago, and Madrid. She made her debut with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in 1998 as piano soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 467, and has also performed frequently with them as part of the orchestra.

She continues to be an active performer and scholar, giving concerts and lectures throughout the United States. Her two CD recordings—the first of her 50th Birthday Concert, and the second, "In A," recorded in 2005—are available with sales benefiting the Lee Jordan-Anders Piano Scholarship at Virginia Wesleyan.

Her latest project, Picture This! A Gallery of Musical Canvases Framed by Works of Art from the Collection of the Chrysler Museum, is an audio tour available at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia.

Lee’s passion for making music matches that of the musicians in the Orchestra of the Eastern Shore, and she’s eager to lead the orchestra into its second decade of music making.