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Dr. Robert Holm

Dr. Robert Holm

Professor of Music
Piano, Collaborative Piano Keyboard Area Coordinator

Education

  • Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance
    Point Loma Nazarene College

  • Master of Music in Piano Performance
    University Illinois

  • Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance
    University of Illinois

Biography

Robert Holm has enjoyed performing over 500 recitals in the Mobile area, including solo, duo, chamber, vocal, and choral collaborations. Additionally, he has served as principal pianist for the Mobile Symphony Orchestra since 1999, and as a regular church pianist since 1998, currently at Spring Hill Baptist Church in Mobile. A Steinway Artist since 2010, is Professor of Music and head of the piano division at the University of South Alabama, and principal pianist for the Mobile Symphony Orchestra since 1999. Holm received a B.A. in Piano at Pt. Loma Nazarene University in San Diego followed by M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from the University of Illinois. Holm was a finalist or prize winner at the Liszt Competition in Italy, at the Bartók-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev Competition in Virginia, and at the International Beethoven Sonata Competition in Tennessee. In 1988, Holm was one of 88 pianists who performed at the Superbowl XXII halftime show in San Diego, California. Since 2011, he has directed the University of South Alabama Summer Piano Camp.

Holm has appeared as soloist performing concerti by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Grieg,
Rachmaninoff and Gershwin with various ensembles including the Johnson City Symphony Orchestra,
Mobile Symphony Orchestra, Mobile Youth Symphony, and the Mobile Symphonic Pops. He has
performed as soloist and collaborative artist at Steinway Hall in London, at Carnegie (Weill) Hall, at
Shaoxing University (China), at Lakehead University (Canada), and in three venues in São Paulo State,
Brazil in June 2019.

In 2006, Holm cofounded the Archduke Piano Trio, which has performed over 40 standard chamber
works. In his 2019, visit to Brazil, Holm directed master classes at Tatuí Conservatory and at the
University of Campinas. At the University of South Alabama, Holm has given over 60 solo recitals
including sonata cycles by Mozart and Beethoven and over 270 collaborative recitals with faculty and guest artists. A recipient of the 2020 University of South Alabama Dean’s Lecture Award, Holm accepted the invitation to serve as commencement speaker at the Spring 2021 USA Arts & Sciences commencement ceremony.