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Julian Bennett Holmes is an award-winning composer, performer, and music theorist. He is a doctoral candidate at the Manhattan School of Music, and he is in charge of chapel music at Columbia University. He has served on the editorial board of Music & Nature, and he previously taught at Hofstra University.
 
He has won prizes including the Society for New Music’s Israel/Pellman Award, the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester Young Composer Award, the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Composers Award, and second prize at the International Antonín Dvořák Composition Competition. He has presented at conferences including EuroMAC (Strasbourg, France), the Rutgers University Musicological Society Conference, twice at the Society of Composers, and at the University of Delaware. He has hosted the New York City American Guild of Organists conference, chaired the Graduate Theory Conference at the Manhattan School of Music, and given a guest lecture at South China Normal University. In 2024, he produced a critical edition of three pieces by Bartolomeo Bernardi for the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.

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