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” in Los Angeles (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 Penderecki String Quartet, The California Institute of the Arts Orchestra, USC Thornton Symphony, Society of Composers INC, Piano Spheres, Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, Society for Chromatic Art, Inauthentica, The Nimbus Institute, Trio Terroir, and others. He has been on the faculty of the University of Southern California, and is currently Professor of Composition at Chapman University’s Conservatory of Music. He is published by Doberman-Yppan.
Web: http://www.chapman.edu/music/faculty/holmes.asp (2011)