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 Eric
Lindholm
Associate Professor of Music
Thatcher 112,
(909) 607-4208,
eric.lindholm@pomona.edu
Web Site:
Pomona College Orchestra page
Expertise Profile
Eric Lindholm has conducted both in the United States and
abroad, for orchestra and opera, in all kinds of
repertoire. He has appeared with the Festival Strings
Lucerne (Switzerland), the Folkwang Kammerorchester
Essen (Germany), the State Symphony Orchestra of São
Paulo (Brazil), the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony,
and other orchestras in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,
Poland, and the United States. From the pit, he has led
works by Mozart, Ravel, Argento, and others, as well as
lighter works by Arthur Sullivan and Kurt Weill. He
holds the distinction of having won prizes in major
international competitions for both conducting (Besançon
1993) and composition (Mitropoulos 2007), and his
compositions have been performed in Greece and the
United States.
He is particularly proud of the music that he has explored
with the Pomona College Orchestra. The Orchestra's
talent, hard work, and open-mindedness have enabled it
to perform works that orchestras at similar institutions
would find prohibitively difficult. Repertoire
highlights during Prof. Lindholm's time at Pomona
include Act III of Wagner's Die Walküre, Mahler's
Symphony No.1, Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra,
Nielsen's Symphony No. 4 ("The Inextinguishable"), and
Shostakovich's symphonies No. 8 and No. 10. He has also
tremendously enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with
both faculty and student soloists.
In the classroom, Prof. Lindholm has offered several
courses, including Music 4 (Materials of Music), Music
53 (The Symphony and Related Forms), Music 57 (Western
Music: A Historical Introduction), Music 75 (Opera), and
Music 113 (Orchestration and Instrumentation). He has
sometimes led the ear-training "laboratories" for the
theory sequence, and he also teaches conducting when his
schedule permits.
Prof. Lindholm is a former child prodigy in mathematics,
taking college calculus at age 10 and completing a year
of college physics by age 13. He switched to a music
major while in the middle of an undergraduate physics
degree at Princeton, going on to earn advanced degrees
in conducting from Boston University and the Yale School
of Music and attending Tanglewood on a conducting
fellowship in 1994. Also proficient on the cello, he
studied with Michael Reynolds of the Muir String Quartet
and still performs occasionally, including on the Friday
Noon concert series and in student-faculty chamber
ensembles. He is married to the violist Kira Blumberg,
who is on the faculty at the University of Redlands and
performs with the Redlands Symphony, the Long Beach
Symphony, the new music organization ensemble GREEN, and
other groups. |
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