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JOSEPH HOLT

Joseph Holt

Joseph Holt, Associate Conductor of The Choral Arts Society of Washington, enjoys a wide-ranging musical career as pianist, chamber music performer, educator, conductor and arranger. He was Director of Choral Activities at the American University in Washington, DC, and Head of Accompanying at George Mason University in Virginia. He currently serves as the principal pianist for The United States Army Chorus. Joseph Holt made his Choral Arts debut conducting Misa Criolla,is artistic director of the organization's Family Concerts, and conducted during the ensemble's England tour at the Chester Music Festival. He is also the executive producer for the acclaimed national radio series, Celebrating the Choral Art. During the millennium celebrations he was one of ten conductors who prepared a chorus of 2000 voices for a world première by Maury Yeston with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Unusual highlights of his musical career include coordinating and conducting the Wolf Trap Filene Center Orchestra for a gala performance featuring premier comedian Victor Borge, compiling and directing the music for Prodigy, a children's play about Mozart at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, assisting in the development of the National Music Conservatory in Amman, Jordan, and producing a series of multi piano concerts for the US Army Band at the Kennedy Center. He holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Shenandoah Conservatory and the Catholic University of America.