AUDIO PERFORMANCE
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Julian Bennett Holmes (b. 1991 in Brooklyn) is an award-winning composer and organist, harpsichordist, percussionist, and music theorist. He is in charge of chapel music at Columbia University, and he is on the music theory faculty of the Mannes School of Music, where he teaches theory and analysis to undergraduate and graduate students. In 2025, he received his doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music.

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, and chaired the Graduate Theory Conference at the Manhattan School of Music. In 2024, he produced a critical edition of three pieces by Bartolomeo Bernardi for the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.

His pieces have been performed across the United States and in Europe, and he has performed in Canada, widely across the United States, in the UK and in Europe, and as far as Croatia and the Republic of Georgia. He has played at festivals including South by Southwest (Austin), North by Northeast (Toronto), CMJ (New York), and the Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia. He has played hundreds of concerts on tour around North America and Europe, and he has given guest lectures in the United States and China.

He is also a record producer, having produced over thirty albums for labels including Impose Records, Beautiful Records, Intellectual Bird Records, Judd Records, and others. His compositions and performances appear on releases by Aagoo Records, Fire Talk Records, Single Girl Married Girl Records, 8bitpeoples Records, and others. He has worked as a producer and recording engineer at major studios in New York.

His performances have been reviewed in The Wire and elsewhere, and his work has been noted in New York Magazine, The New York Times, Paper Magazine, and others.