Jay Gordon's music explores the intersection where sound and spirituality meet.

Jay Gordon's works have been performed by the Rose Ensemble, the Dale Warland Singers and Duo Ahlert & Schwab. Since studying classical guitar and composition at the University of Minnesota, Jay has been active as composer, guitarist and concert producer. He's been composer-in-residence with the American Composers Forum's Faith Partners Program. In 1995 Jay founded and acted as Artistic Director for Music Saint Croix, an annual series of chamber music concerts and new music commissions based in Stillwater, Minnesota. He currently teaches guitar at Mount Calvary Academy of Music and at the Universal Strumming Guitar Studio.

RECENT WORK: The Keeping of the Soul, for mixed voices, had it's premiere April, 2009. The piece was a joint commission between the men's chorus Cantus and The National Lutheran Choir. They performed the work with their combined forces of seventy voices. The piece looks at death through the lenses of nine religions in their native tongues.