Jordan Verzar

Jordan Verzar is director of the Australian based, globally operating, touring, label and management agency Top Shelf.

Jordan is the originator and co-curator of GRAPHIC; Sydney Opera House’s festival of comics, animation and music. He produced the content of many of the shows presented as well as initiating the collaborations and initial concepts.

Jordan held the role of TEDx Sydney’s performance curator for seven years and programmed the most watched performances of TED or TEDx of all time.

Top Shelf
Top Shelf currently represents an innovative roster of local Australian and international artists with a focus on new ideas within music, virtuosity, cross-artform projects and collaborations.

Top Shelf has been producing shows, collaborative projects, programming festivals and events, booking tours and releasing albums for 30 years. Top Shelf has worked across multiple art practices for many years; music, literature, animation, dance, comic books, live scores and cross-artform hybrid projects.

Top Shelf represents Australian artists Internationally and International artists for both Australia and across the world. Jordan is involved in close collaborations and specialist curating for Australia and the world’s largest and most esteemed festivals and arts centres.

Top Shelf has produced tours for Artists such as: Olafur Arnalds (Iceland), Debashish Bhattacharya (India), Tinariwen (Mali), Ganavya (India/USA), Hanggai (Mongolia/China), Nils Frahm (Germany), Blind Boys of Alabama (USA), Rival Consoles (UK), Tuba Skinny (New Orleans), Amanda Palmer (USA), Vieux Farka Toure (Mali), Kiasmos (Iceland), Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro (Japan), Kaki King (NYC), Bombino (Niger), Babylon Circus (France), Sarah j Maas (USA), Bassekou Kouyaté (Mali), Neil Gaiman (UK/USA) and many many more.

Top Shelf represents Australian artists; iOTA, Jeff Lang, FourPlay String Quartet, The Necks, The Circle of Rhythm, Tjupurru, The Bird, Ben Walsh, Bobby Singh, and more…