Jonathan Bailey Holland

Jonathan Bailey Holland

Jonathan Bailey Holland

Title: Water Music
Commission: 2015
Completed: 2018
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Jonathan Bailey Holland (b. 1974, Flint, MI) studied composition with Ned Rorem at the Curtis Institute of Music, and later received a PhD from Harvard University, where he worked with Bernard Rands, Mario Davidovsky, Yehudi Wyner, and Andrew Imbrie. His works have been commissioned and performed by the Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Colorado, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Memphis, Minnesota, National, Philadelphia, San Antonio, St. Louis, and South Bend Symphony Orchestras; Auros Group for New Music; Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia; Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra; Orchestra 2001, and many others. He has received honors from the Fromm Foundation, American Academy of Arts & Letters, American Music Center, ASCAP, the Presser Foundation, and more. He has been Composer-in-Residence for the Plymouth Music Series of Minnesota; Ritz Chamber Players; Detroit and South Bend Symphony Orchestras; and the Radius Ensemble. Recent highlights include the premiere of Equality for narrator and orchestra for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, using the poetry of Maya Angelou; premieres by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Transient Canvas and the Radius Ensemble; and the recording release of Dark Flowers by flutist Christopher Chaffee. Holland is Professor of Composition at The Boston Conservatory, as well as Berklee College of Music. He is also a founding faculty member in the Low Residency MFA in Music Composition program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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