Mike Holober

Jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and big-band innovator Mike Holober offers proven versatility inside a career which has seen him focused on both teaching and executing. Trained like a traditional pianist and conductor, he started working like a jazz sideman and composer upon shifting to NEW YORK in 1986. His most prominent early association was as an accompanist for baritone saxophonist Nick Brignola, operating alongside him in the past due ’90s before Brignola’s loss of life in 2002. After that, Holober spent some time working in little- and large-group contexts, composing original music which has place him in great organization with fellow N.Con.C. chartsmiths. His contemporary jazz works have already been performed or documented from the hr-Bigband in Germany, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Airmen of Notice, the Joe Roccisano non-et, as well as the Prism and NY Saxophone Quartets. As an associated pianist, Holober offers collaborated with Tim Ries and his Rolling Rocks Task, John Pattitucci, Pete McGuinness, Dave Pietro, Charles Cushion, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Brian Cutter, Scott Colley, John Abercrombie, Joe Magnarelli, Tim Hagans, Peter Erskine, among others. The Gotham Jazz Orchestra is certainly his very own big band, launching Thought Trains offering Ron Carter in 2005 and Quake in ’09 2009. His initial small-ensemble documenting, Canyon, premiered in 2003, accompanied by Desire List in 2006, both for the Sons of Sound label. Holober was appointed as associate movie director from the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop, signing up for Bob Brookmeyer, Manny Albam, and Jim McNeely. He’s the artistic movie director and conductor from the Westchester Jazz Orchestra, a non-profit firm that performs a normal program of recently commissioned works every year. Holober symbolized the U.S.A. being a ethnic envoy for the STATE DEPT. in the summertime of 2005 playing concerts in Venezuela, continues to be composer in home for the Gotham Blowing wind Symphony since 2004, and it has been assistant teacher at City University of NY since 1995, directing jazz ensembles and teaching classes in structure, in arranging, as well as for tempo section. He’s a multiple award champion from the MacDowell Fellowship, and it has garnered commissions in the Ucross Foundation, the organization of Yaddo Visitor, the School of Michigan, as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork funded with the Pew Charitable Trust. Various other international credits add a tour as visitor artist using the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, the RIAS Big Music group in Berlin, as well as the UMO Big Music group in Helsinki, Finland. Holober can be an enthusiastic outdoorsman, hiker, and climber, motivated by his reference to character translated into contemporary jazz music.