Jordan Knapick is an operatic soprano and musical theater singer, dancer, and actress currently based in Seattle, WA. A northern Illinois native, Jordan has been a performer from the time she could walk and talk. From a young age, she loved going to dance classes and voice lessons, and after performing as an orphan in a local youth theatre's production of Annie at age eleven, she caught the theatre bug.

 

She received her MM from Boston University and her BM from Oklahoma City University, where she studied voice under Lynn Eustis and Jeffrey Picón, respectively. A lover of crossover work, Jordan spent the past three summers as a Resident Young Artist at Ohio Light Opera, where she has sung Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Elsie Maynard in The Yeoman of the Guard, Gretchen in The Red Mill, Patience in Patience, Carrie in Carousel, Juliette in The Count of Luxembourg, and Elsa Schraeder in The Sound of Music. Most notably, as Juliette, Jordan’s voice “radiated sunlight, graceful in every register, and physically she managed to convey her character’s dual assets of sweetness and tenacity” (Cleveland Classical), and her "Elsie Maynard was the vocal standout, bringing radiance and warmth to the strolling singer who happens along at just the right moment... Her scenes with Ted Christopher’s Jack Point were among the production’s comic and musical high points" (Cleveland Classical). In the '25-'26 season, Jordan was well engaged throughout the Seattle area, singing Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance with the Seattle Opera School Opera Tour, the soprano solo in Fauré’s Requiem at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, and both Almirena in Rinaldo and Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos with Pacific Northwest Opera.

 

After singing as a soloist in Opera Louisiane's Life, Liberty, and Laughs! concert on Sept. 20th, Jordan's work takes her back to the Midwest for this upcoming season. She will be a Smith Young Artist with Cedar Rapids Opera, where she will sing the role of Day Creatures in their fall children's production of Papagayo, as well as the understudy for Johanna and in the chorus of Sweeney Todd in January. Additionally, Jordan will sing her first Messiah as a soloist with the Rockford Choral Union on Nov. 28th and 29th, and she will present a recital with Joel Ross at Mendelssohn PAC in Rockford, IL on March 19th. She is very excited as to what this next year will bring, both in her performing work and personal life.