Jordan Elum, Violin
Photo by David Friedlander
Jordan Elum is a Johns Hopkins University junior majoring in Neuroscience. Born in South Carolina, Jordan began playing the violin at age eleven in a Berkeley County public school. He soon began to study privately and joined the Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra in 2007. He was concertmaster of the South Carolina All-State Orchestra consecutively in 2009, 2010, and 2011. In 2010, he attended the Furman University Orchestra program where he won the Concerto Competition and served as concertmaster of the symphony orchestra. He was a soloist with the Piccolo Spoleto Festival Orchestra as a winner of the 2011 Youth Orchestra of the Lowcountry Concerto Competition. In 2011 and 2012, he attended the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute in Washington D.C., where he studied solo, chamber, and orchestral works with NSO musicians. In 2013, Jordan returned to the Piccolo Spoleto Festival to perform Navarra by Pablo de Sarasate. Jordan received scholarships from the Charleston Symphony Orchestra League between 2008 and 2012 to study violin with Megan Molina, former Associate Concertmaster of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and Lee-Chin Siow, College of Charleston Professor of Violin.
He currently studies with Melina Gajger of the Peabody Institute and is a member of the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra.
April 30, 2016