Julian Bennett Holmes

Julian Bennett Holmes is an award-winning composer, performer, theorist, teacher; in charge of chapel music at Columbia University; doctoral candidate at the Manhattan School of Music, where he teaches undergraduate courses. He studied with Lowell Liebermann, Richard Danielpour, Marjorie Merryman, and the late Kenneth Cooper. As a teenager, he toured internationally, playing in experimental bands.

Prizes and fellowships include the 2021 Blue Hill Bach Marville Young Artist Fellowship, Society for New Music Israel/Pellman Award, the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester Young Composer Competition, the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Composers Award, Second Prize at the Seventh International Antonín Dvořák Composition Competition.

He performs weekly organ meditations at Columbia University, which you can watch on YouTube or attend in person.

Contact: julian@newschool.edu.

Selected Works

2021

• Nine Variations on a Ground

  Listen or download on Bandcamp

• Chorale Prelude on Min Jesus, lad min Hjerte faa en saaden Smag paa dig for woodwind quintet

• Chorale Prelude on Vater unser in Himmelreich for organ

  Listen on SoundCloud

• Bicinium, Tricinium for violin, oboe da caccia, basso continuo

• Partita for solo cello

  Watch on YouTube

• Nostos with George Stathos

  Watch on YouTube

2020

• Piano Trio

  Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube

• Theremin & drums improv with Sasha Brodsky

  Watch on YouTube

• Recercare for piano

  Watch on YouTube

2019

• Canzon a 8 per cori spezzati

• Missa alternatim for muezzin, organ, voices, brass

2018

• Piano Quintet

  Listen on Spotify, Apple Music; watch on YouTube

• “Song,” for soprano, violin, piano

  Watch on YouTube