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  Eric Lindholm
Associate Professor of Music
Thatcher 112, (909) 607-4208, eric.lindholm@pomona.edu
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Eric Lindholm has conducted both in the United States and abroad, for orchestra and opera, in all kinds of repertoire. His orchestra appearances include the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony and other orchestras in that country; the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic in Zlín, Czech Republic; the Filharmonia Sudecka of Walbrzych, Poland; the State Symphony Orchestra of São Paulo, Brazil; and the Savannah (Georgia), Springfield (Massachusetts), and Norwalk (Connecticut) Symphonies. 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 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 Mahler’s Symphony #1, Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, Joan Tower’s Clarinet Concerto, Nielsen’s Symphony #4 (“The Inextinguishable”), and Anton Webern’s Six Pieces, opus 6. 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 51 (Western Music from the Time of Beethoven to the Present), Music 53 (The Symphony and Related Forms), Music 75 (Opera), and Music 113 (Orchestration and Instrumentation). He often leads 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. In 1993, he was a prize winner at the international conducting competition in Besançon, France, and he attended 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 Kira Blumberg, a violist with the Los Angeles Opera, the Long Beach Symphony, and other groups.

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