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Jordan Bartow is a cellist/improviser/composer residing between South Carolina and New York City. Noted for his “booming resonance in the lower register” by icareifyoulisten.com, He is especially dedicated to the promotion, development, and performance of contemporary music. Mr. Bartow is the cellist and production manager of the Blackbox Ensemble, a New York City-based contemporary music ensemble devoted to using new music as a platform to engage critically with the social and cultural issues of our time. The Blackbox Ensemble has been featured in The New Yorker Magazine, Timeout New York, New Music USA, and icareifyoulisten.com. Mr. Bartow is also a member of the critically acclaimed Chelsea Symphony, as well as the award-winning new music ensemble Infrasound.

A dedicated recording artist and composer, Mr. Bartow has recorded many of his own compositions and improvisations, along with staples of the Contemporary Cello Repertoire such as Luciano Berio’s “Sequenza XIV”, as released on his debut Live EP “Utopian”. An album of original compositions is on track to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2021.

Currently, Jordan Bartow is working with the Blackbox Ensemble to curate a series of performances that question the canonized presentation of classical music. Exciting new works will be presented in an art gallery, replacing the role of paintings with sonic landscapes, encouraging small groups of listeners to walk through and listen to music in ways they previously never imagined or thought possible.

September 2021