Jordan Verzar is director of the Australian based, globally operating, touring, label and management agency Top Shelf. Top Shelf currently represents a diverse roster of local Australian and international music with a focus on innovation, new ideas within music, virtuosity and live scores to image and words. Top Shelf has been producing shows, programming festivals and events, booking tours and releasing albums for 17 years.
Top Shelf has produced tours of Australasia for Artists such as: Tuba Skinny (New Orleans), Olafur Arnalds (Iceland), Hanggai (Mongolia), Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro (Japan), Kaki King (NYC), Bombino (Niger), Babylon Circus (France), Neil Gaiman (UK/USA, Nils Frahm (Germany) and many many more.
Jordan is the originator and co-curator of GRAPHIC; Sydney Opera House’s annual festival of comics, animation and music, now in it’s fourth year at the SOH. He produces the content of many of the shows presented as well as initiating the collaborations and initial concepts.
Jordan holds the role of musical director of TEDx Sydney, the main Australian sub branch of the global ideas and entertainment forum. Jordan has created two independent record labels to support the artists represented: