Biography

Jorde Heys is an award-winning Sydney-based composer whose output traverses a range of mediums, from concert works to music for stage and screen. His work seeks to create unifying and collaborative musical moments that meet at the intersection of distinct artistic disciplines.

With a background in classical performance, Jorde was awarded the Music Faculty and Os Nelson Scholarships to attend Queen's College whilst undertaking his Bachelor of Music at The Conservatorium of Music at The University of Melbourne in 2013, studying piano under Mrs Elizabeth Mitchell and Dr Donna Coleman. Having had a passion for writing music from an early age, he subsequently majored in composition under composers A/Prof. Elliott Gyger and Dr Katy Abbott. In 2016, he completed his Honours year in composition at the same institution under Prof. Stuart Greenbaum, winning the Melbourne Recital Centre and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Composition Prize for a commission of a piece, ego folium, which was premiered in April 2018 by early music specialists Latitude 37.

Whilst studying, he discovered a love for composing to narrative in a theatrical setting and received four commissions for dramatic underscoring by 2017. From here, Jorde began to branch into the world of film music, believing it to be an integral emotional facet of the art's collaborative psyche. Feeding into the umbrella idea of the collaborative artistic whole, and distilling this notion further within his discipline, he completed a Master of Arts Screen (Screen Composition) at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in 2019. Films featuring his work have screened widely both nationally and internationally, garnering several awards and many nominations. Most recently, Jorde was awarded the Avid Award for Best Original Music in an Australian Short Film at Flickerfest 2021.

Jorde is a full member of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jorden Heys

Jorde grew up in Ballarat, Victoria.