Wyneke Jordans is a Dutch pianist. Born in Venlo in 1953 into a musical family, she began piano lessons with her mother at the age of four. Her grandfather Theo Jordans, a conductor, organist and piano teacher, and her father Wieke Jordans, also a conductor and piano teacher, prepared her for conservatory study.
Jordans studied with Jan Wijn at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, where she received the Performing Musician diploma. She has also held guest teaching appointments at several Dutch conservatories.
Since 1977, she has performed chiefly in the piano duo Wyneke Jordans & Leo van Doeselaar. They appear as a piano-four-hands duo, as a two-piano duo, and with ensembles. Their collaborators have included the Amsterdam Percussion Group, the Netherlands Chamber Choir, the Berlin Philharmonic Choir, the vocal group Quink, the Baroque Orchestra of the Netherlands Bach Society, Anima Eterna, and several Dutch symphony orchestras.
The duo has toured Europe, the United States, Russia and Asia, and was the first piano-four-hands duo to tour China, in 2005 and 2006. Alongside the central repertoire for piano four hands and two pianos, Jordans and Van Doeselaar perform Dutch music and arrangements of works originally written for other instruments.
Jordans and Van Doeselaar also specialize in the fortepiano. As a fortepiano duo, they have given recitals and masterclasses at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Festival of Flanders, Antverpiano, the York Early Music Festival and the Berlin Days for Early Music. A collaboration with the BBC in 1993 led to seven recordings and concerts on both historical and modern pianos.
In 1985 Jordans received the audience prize at Amsterdam's Sonesta Dome Hall. In 2006, she and Van Doeselaar were awarded a silver medal by the Arts-Sciences-Lettres society in Paris for their services to French music.
Her recordings with Van Doeselaar include music for piano four hands by Erik Satie, Antonín Dvořák, Maurice Ravel and Franz Schubert; Dutch chamber-music repertoire; works by Julius Röntgen; Bach after Bach; French transcriptions on Bric-a-Brac; and Beethoven's Fourth Symphony.