John Holiday's repertoire focuses on the Baroque and contemporary composers, including staged opera and opera in concert, works for voice and orchestra, and experimental mixed-media.
29 Facts About John Holiday
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John Holiday has performed with several opera companies in the United States, toured with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and sung in Shanghai and several European cities.
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John Holiday sings gospel, pop, and jazz; he was a contestant on season 19 of NBC's The Voice, a vocal competition television series.
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John Holiday taught himself to play piano by imitating her, and later the organ.
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John Holiday won a spot in the Fort Bend Boys Choir, which led to appearances as a treble soloist in the Houston Symphony's performances of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust with Denyce Graves in the role of Marguerite.
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John Holiday studied at Southern Methodist University from 2003 to 2007, earning a bachelor of music degree in vocal performance.
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John Holiday won the Concerto Competition of SMU's Meadows School of the Arts in 2007.
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John Holiday then returned to Rosenberg and taught Choral Music and Voice at Lamar Junior High School and Lamar Consolidated High School from August 2008 to December 2009.
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John Holiday returned to vocal studies, now at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where he earned a master's degree in vocal performance in 2012.
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John Holiday spent the summer of that year with the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice program for singers.
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John Holiday next enrolled at Juilliard, studied with Marlena Malas and Stephen Wadsworth, and obtained his Artist Diploma in Opera Studies in 2014.
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John Holiday later said his models in the countertenor repertoire were Andreas Scholl and Derek Lee Ragin.
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John Holiday made his Carnegie Hall debut in October 2012, performing Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the Atlanta Symphony under Robert Spano.
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John Holiday made his debut at Portland Opera in the role of 1st Oracle and 1st Cardinal in Kevin Newbury's 2012 production of Galileo Galilei by Philip Glass under the baton of maestra Anne Manson.
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John Holiday reprised those roles in his 2013 debut at the Cincinnati Opera.
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John Holiday returned to sing the title role in Handel's Xerxes in the summer of 2017.
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John Holiday repeated that performance at the Dutch National Opera in March 2018, his European debut.
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John Holiday then sang Bernstein's Chichester Psalms on tour with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in New York, London, and Paris.
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John Holiday made his Metropolitan Opera debut in that opera in December 2021.
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John Holiday combined Italian baroque arias with works by Black composers in conjunction with the museum's exhibit of paintings by Jacob Lawrence called "The American Struggle".
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John Holiday has been an associate professor of music at the Conservatory of Music at Lawrence University since 2017.
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John Holiday is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the American Guild of Musical Artists.
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John Holiday has performed jazz and gospel music throughout his career.
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John Holiday released a jazz album entitled "The Holiday Guide" that year as well.
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John Holiday has identified as gay since he was a teenager.
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John Holiday got engaged to fellow The Voice contestant Rio Souma in the summer of 2021, and married on July 30,2022.
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John Holiday was represented by Columbia Artists Management until 2018.
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John Holiday has been represented since that time by Fletcher Artist Management.
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John Holiday is the second cousin of the former Vice President of Major League Baseball Jimmie Lee Solomon.