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Julian Bennett Holmes is an award-winning composer, performer, and researcher. He is in charge of chapel music at Columbia University, and he teaches music theory at the Mannes School of Music. He is presently a doctoral candidate at the Manhattan School of Music. He serves as associate editor of Music & Nature, and in 2024, he produced a critical edition of three pieces by Bartolomeo Bernardi for the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.

Bennet Holmes is the recipient of numerous awards, including those of the Society for New Music, the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester, and the National Federation of Music Clubs. He has presented at conferences of EuroMAC (Strasbourg, France), the Rutgers University Musicological Society Conference, the Society of Composers, and at the University of Delaware. He hosted the New York City American Guild of Organists conference, and he chaired the Graduate Theory Conference at the Manhattan School of Music. 

Bennet Holmes’ pieces have been performed in the United States and Europe, and he has played hundreds of concerts across North America and Europe, and as far as Bosnia, Croatia, and the Republic of Georgia. He has performed at festivals including South by Southwest, North by Northeast, CMJ, Blue Hill Bach, and the Sarajevo Film Festival and has given guest lectures in the United States and China. 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, among others.

He is also a record producer, having produced albums for labels including Impose Records, Beautiful Records, Intellectual Bird Records. His compositions and performances appear on releases by Aagoo Records, Fire Talk Records, 8bitpeoples Records, among others.