George Stathos, clarinet
Julian Bennett Holmes, organ

Live recording from St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, April 1st, 2021.

Nostos

Improvisation on Organ and Piano

Commissioned by the 2021 Blue Hill Bach Festival and performed by the composer.

Performed on the Anne Parson Memorial Organ (Karl Wilhelm tracker organ, 2000/2009) at St. Francis by the Sea Episcopal Church in Blue Hill, Maine.

Chorale Prelude on “Vater unser in Himmelreich,” for organ

Performed by Windscape:
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Randall Wolfgang, oboe
Alan R. Kay, clarinet
David Jolley, horn
Frank Morelli, bassoon

Chorale Prelude on “Min Jesus, lad min Hjerte faa en saaden Smag paa dig”

Neutral Third

Premiered at Columbia University on May 14, 2024.

Seven phrases

Premiered at Columbia University on April 17, 2025.

Turba, for MIDI organ

Improvised Prelude on the St. Paul’s Chapel Organ

Julian Bennett Holmes is an award-winning composer, performer, theorist, teacher; in charge of chapel music at Columbia University; associate editor of Music & Nature; doctoral candidate at the Manhattan School of Music, where he teaches undergraduate courses.

He studied with Lowell Liebermann, Richard Danielpour, Marjorie Merryman, and the late Kenneth Cooper. As a teenager, he toured internationally, playing in experimental bands.

Prizes and fellowships include the 2021 Blue Hill Bach Marville Young Artist Fellowship, Society for New Music Israel/Pellman Award, Society for Chamber Music in Rochester Young Composer Competition, National Federation of Music Clubs Young Composers Award, Second Prize at the Seventh International Antonín Dvořák Composition Competition.

He performs weekly organ meditations at Columbia University, which you can watch on YouTube or attend in person.

Julian Bennett Holmes

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