Ordway’s work is passionately multidisciplinary, reflecting his creative involvement in a wide variety of art forms and humanistic subjects. In recent years, he has explored the relationships between literature, religion, and the natural world through a series of large-scale projects that incorporate original text, theater, lighting design, sound design, and video, often defying easy categorization. Recent commissions have come from the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, SOLI Chamber Ensemble, Hong Kong Baptist University, the Lorelei Ensemble, the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival, the Curtis Institute of Music, and Grammy-winning cellist Arlen Hlusko. Ordway’s work has been supported by a wide range of grants, awards, and fellowships, including those from ASCAP, NewMusicUSA, the American Composers Orchestra, the American Music Center, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the American Composers Forum, Rutgers University, Haverford College, and American Opera Projects, where he was a 2017–19 Fellow. His music has been presented throughout the United States and internationally by the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Buffalo Symphony, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood New Fromm Players, the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler (Berlin), Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Lorelei Ensemble, and the Jasper, Momenta, and Daedalus string quartets. Ordway is Assistant Professor of Composition in the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.