Jeffrey Holmes, D.M.A.

“Captivating…the haunting and slightly disorienting sound disrupts and engages the open ear” (Los Angeles Times)

 “By far the most interesting and musically arresting work on the concert…music to be really heard and deserving of reflection” (Society of Composers, Inc.)

Jeffrey Holmes was born in Los Angeles, California, and holds a BM degree from the San Francisco Conservatory and a MM and DMA from the University of Southern California.  His music has been performed at festivals in Darmstadt (Germany), Microfest 2003 and 2005 in Venice (CA), at 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 California Institute of the Arts Orchestra, Society of Composers INC, Piano Spheres, Society for Chromatic Art, Inauthentica, The Nimbus Institute, ensembleGREEN and others. He has been on the faculty of the University of Southern California, and is currently Professor of Theory and Composition at Chapman University’s Conservatory of Music.  He is published by Doberman-Yppan.