John
Peter Holly
John
Peter Holly
John Peter Holly - Biography
John Peter Holly has been active as a musician, arts administrator and arts educator throughout the state of New Jersey for the past twenty years.
As an arts administrator, he has been active with many of the state’s leading arts organizations including consultancies with The State Theatre/New Brunswick Cultural Center, the Garden State Ballet Company and Jerome Hines’ Opera Music Theatre International. From 1985 to 1990, he worked as a production consultant for numerous concert and recital events in New York City at such venues as Abraham Goodman House/Merkin Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall. From 1994 until 1997, he served as President of the Association of New Jersey Orchestras (ANJerO).
As an educator, Mr. Holly has been member of the faculty of Westminster Choir College of Rider University, where he taught courses in arts administration, including Marketing and Communications in the Arts, Professional Organizations, Grant Writing and the Law in the Arts and Introduction to Arts Management. From 1978 until 1987, he worked as an editorial assistant to Professor Joseph Machlis, author of numerous music textbooks, including The Enjoyment of Music, the highest-selling book on the subject of music appreciation.
As a conductor, Mr. Holly has performed with numerous ensembles throughout the state including the Brunswick Symphony Orchestra, of which he served as Music Advisor, the New Jersey Choral Society, which he founded in 1980, and the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra, of which he has been Music Director since 1992. In December 1998, he produced and conducted a series of gala reopening concerts with the GTSO at the Trenton War Memorial following the hall’s five year, $40 million renovations. The following October, he led the GTSO in a special concert celebrating the opening of Trenton’s new 10,000-seat Sovereign Bank Arena.
Mr. Holly is a graduate of The Juilliard School of Music in New York City from which he holds bachelor and master’s degrees. While at Juilliard, he studied tuba with New York Philharmonic tubist Joseph Novotny and conducting with the renowned conducting teacher Leon Barzin. From 1974 to 1979, Mr. Holly was principal tubist of the National Orchestral Association, performing in that orchestra’s annual concert series at Carnegie Hall.