About

Christopher Holman is completing a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Music at the University of Oxford, and in August 2022 will begin a post as Director of Music at St. Gertrude Church and Priory in Cincinnati, part of the Dominican Order. 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. In 2017, 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 since performed on many of the most important historic organs in the world. During his time at Oxford, he directed the Choir of Exeter College, was Lecturer in Organ History at the University’s Betts Centre for Organ Studies, and was a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Music at New College. He is the Founder and Editor of the journal Vox Humana, has presented papers and lectured at leading international musicology conferences in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland, and his research has been published in Early Music (with a forthcoming paper in Keyboard Perspectives). He previously studied with Robert Bates at the University of Houston and Dana Robinson at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.