Jeffrey Holmes, D.M.A.

The music of composer Jeffrey Holmes has been called “Captivating…haunting and slightly disorienting” by the Los Angeles Times, “Drifting…ethereal” by the San Francisco Classical Voice, and “Interesting and musically arresting, music to be really heard and deserving of reflection” by the Society of Composers, INC. As a traditionalist, he composes music for acoustic orchestral instruments, using standard notational methods; as a formalist, he works within a complex and unique diatonic, chromatic, and
microtonal language; as a transcendentalist, he combines the inherent abstraction of sound with a greater meaning and possibility of interpretation through the use of lyricism and overt expression.

His music has been performed at festivals such as the Darmstadt Ferienkurs für Neue Musik (Germany), at both the “Microfest” (in 2003, 2005, and 2011) and the “HEAR NOW” festivals in Los Angeles (CA), and the Chamber Music Conference and Composer’s Forum of the East in Bennington (Vermont), and in venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York), the Historic Dvorak Museum (Prague, Czech Republic), and the Chapelle historique de Bon-Pasteur (Montreal, Canada). He has received commissions, performances and awards from various groups including the American Composers Forum, ASCAP, the Penderecki String Quartet, California Institute of the Arts Orchestra, USC Thornton Symphony, Xtet, the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, Piano Spheres, the
Society for Chromatic Art, and others.

He holds a doctorate in music composition from the University of Southern California and is Professor of Composition and Theory at Chapman University’s Conservatory of Music, and is currently Composer-in-Residence with Catalysis Projects. His music is published by Doberman-Yppan, and has been recorded on the Sono Luminus label, distributed by Naxos in over 60 countries.

For more information, visit www.HolmesComposer.com