Jordyn Carmen

Jordyn Carmen (MM ’20, DMA ’24, composition) is an American theorist, educator, and composer based in New York. In addition to Juilliard, her teaching experience also includes positions at Fordham University, Juilliard Pre-College, the European-American Musical Alliance, and Bader College at Queen’s University.

Carmen’s works have been performed in the U.S. and Asia by AXIOM, the Juilliard Orchestra, Sylvan Winds, Oregon Wind Quintet, and Cassatt String Quartet. She was the recipient of the Robert Craft Igor Stravinsky Grant in Composition in 2024 and the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2023. She has also been awarded composer fellowships at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Seal Bay Festival.

As a theorist, Carmen is particularly interested in using extended analytical methods to explore compositional processes. Her dissertation introduced a new theory of the atonal altered dominant as a foundational aspect of Schoenberg’s work, using a multitiered analytical approach.