Jordan Rudess entered the pretigious Juilliard School of Music for classical piano training at age 9. At 19 he left Juilliard to pursue the world of synthesizers.

In 1994 Jordan was voted Keyboard Magazines "Best New Talent" after the release of his solo album, entitled "Listen".

Some of the artists Jordan has worked with include, the Dixie Dregs, David Bowie, Enrique Iglesias,, Tony Williams, Jan Hammer and the Paul Winter Consort.

In 1999 after teaming up with John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater to record two Liquid Tension Experiment albums, Jordan became a full time member of DT and has been with them ever since.. The group finished up their last tour in April at a sold out show along with full orchestra, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. That show was recorded for a DVD and will be released at the end of the summer 06 entitled "Score."

In August of 2004 Jordan’s newest solo album was released on Magna Carta Records.

It features incredible players such as, Joe Satriani, Vinnie Moore and Rod Morgenstein.

Jordan has released two books recently, Total Keyboard Wizardry, a keyboard instructional book, and the Dream Theater keyboard Anthology. He also has two instructional DVD’s available, entitled "Keyboard Madness" and "Keyboard Wizardry".

This summer he is working on a new rock solo album for Magna Carta and will entering the studio to begin recording a new Dream Theater album in September 06.