PROGRAM

Musical works by William Selby, Sor Maria Clara, Ignatius Sancho, Clara Schumann, Vincenzo Bellini, Nicola Sampieri, Fela Sowande, Elisabeth Lutyens, and J.S. Bach.

No charge for admission.

Christopher Holman is pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Music at the University of Oxford, where he also directs the choir of Exeter College, and is a graduate teaching assistant in Bach Keyboard Music and Techniques of Composition at New College. He is also the organ teacher at the Dragon School and organist of the Glyme Churches in Oxfordshire. 

Since winning the Albert Schweitzer Competition, he has performed at major international festivals, including the Leipzig Bach Festival in Germany, the Festival international de l’Orgue Ancienne in Sion, Switzerland, and the Festival Internacional de Órgano y Música Antigua in Oaxaca, Mexico. Before coming to Oxford, he held a fellowship from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund to study and pursue research at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, and has performed on many of the most important historic organs in the world.

Mr. Holman is the founder and editor of the journal Vox Humana and has presented papers and lectured at leading international musicology conferences in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Switzerland. His research on seventeenth and eighteenth century organ performance practice in the context of the French Roman Catholic liturgy has been published in Early Music (with a forthcoming paper in Keyboard Perspectives 12). He previously studied with Robert Bates at the University of Houston and Dana Robinson at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

This is Mr. Holman’s second appearance in the Holbrook Organ Series. He played a splendid concert in August of 2018.