Derwyn Holder
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Diane Moser
Derwyn Holder is a wonderful bassist and pianist. He has a very unique compositional style that draws in the listener to a thoughtful world of sound.
Robert Butts
Derwyn Holder is an exceptional composer, writing music that is enjoyable and stilumating to conduct/play as well as great to for any audience to listen to with total pleasurable absorbtion. His combination of jazz elements as well as advanced almost impressionistic harmonies and his knack for a fluidity of timbres and textures gives an unforgettably wonderful quality to his work.
Diane Moser
Derwyn Holder is a wonderful bassist and pianist. He has a very unique compositional style that draws in the listener to a thoughtful world of sound.
Robert Butts
Derwyn Holder is an exceptional composer, writing music that is enjoyable and stilumating to conduct/play as well as great to for any audience to listen to with total pleasurable absorbtion. His combination of jazz elements as well as advanced almost impressionistic harmonies and his knack for a fluidity of timbres and textures gives an unforgettably wonderful quality to his work.
Diane Moser
Derwyn Holder is a wonderful bassist and pianist. He has a very unique compositional style that draws in the listener to a thoughtful world of sound.
Robert Butts
Derwyn Holder is an exceptional composer, writing music that is enjoyable and stilumating to conduct/play as well as great to for any audience to listen to with total pleasurable absorbtion. His combination of jazz elements as well as advanced almost impressionistic harmonies and his knack for a fluidity of timbres and textures gives an unforgettably wonderful quality to his work.
Diane Moser
Derwyn Holder is a wonderful bassist and pianist. He has a very unique compositional style that draws in the listener to a thoughtful world of sound.
Robert Butts
Derwyn Holder is an exceptional composer, writing music that is enjoyable and stilumating to conduct/play as well as great to for any audience to listen to with total pleasurable absorbtion. His combination of jazz elements as well as advanced almost impressionistic harmonies and his knack for a fluidity of timbres and textures gives an unforgettably wonderful quality to his work.
Experience
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Composer
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Musicians
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100 - 200 Employee
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Composer/Jazz Pianist
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Apr 1958 - Present
Classical Composer and Jazz pianist playing his own compositions Classical Composer and Jazz pianist playing his own compositions
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bassist, pianist
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Sep 1963 - Aug 2002
Clark Terry, Steve Allen, Bucky Pizzarelli, John Pizzarelli, Shirley Horn, Linda HopkinsEarl Coleman, Sonny Stitt, James Moody, Zoot Sims, Charlie Ventura, Frank WessBuddy Tate, Billy Eckstine, Johnny Hartman, Maxine Sullivan, Gloria Lynne, Cassandra WilsonCharlie Byrd, Laurindo Almeida, Barney Kessel, Tiny Grimes, Kenny DavernCharles Braugham, Danny Gatton, Art Monroe, Joel Futterman, Mack Goldsbury
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Bassist, Pianist
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Jul 1963 - Aug 2001
During his jazz career, Holder has appeared in New York at the Blue Note, Birdland, Sweet Basil, and Visiones. In DC, at the Kennedy Center, Blues Alley, Top O’Foolery, Showboat Lounge, One Step Down, Harold’s Rogue & Jar, and King of France Tavern. And in Berlin at the A Trane and the Be Bop. He has played with a broad spectrum of jazz artists including:
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Education
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1954 - 1999
Private Study
Master's degree -
1960 - 1963
American University
MA, Music Composition -
1956 - 1960
Tufts University
BA, Music
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