Marymal Holmes

Education

• Doctor of Musical Arts (1996) The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
• Master of Music (1980)- The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
• Bachelor of Music (1976)- University of North Carolina School of the Arts Winston Salem , North Carolina

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  Additional Vocal Study- L'Academia della Musica della Chigiana  Siena, Italy

Areas of Expertise

Vocal Pedagogy and Performance (Applied Voice), Music History, Solo Vocal Literature, Concert Choral Repertoire

Biography

A native of Varina, Virginia (near Richmond), Dr. Holmes has served a Music Educator at Bowie State University since 1984. Receiving her full Professorship in 1998, Dr. Holmes also served the university  community as University Choir Director from 1989 to 2023, and Vice President of the Faculty Senate in 2005. As a Lyric Coloratura Soprano, Dr. Holmes has been a featured concert artist at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, having performed as soloist with the Paul Hill Chorale, the Washington Oratorio Society, The National Symphony Orchestra, the Washington Opera, and the Washington Choral Arts Society. Making her Carnegie Hall debut in 1988 singing the Soprano Solo in Johannes Brahms Eines Deutches Requiem with the Manhattan Philharmonic Orchestra, she has gone on to perform as featured artist in Mexico City, Mexico, Bogota, Colombia,  Siena, Italy Innsbruck, Austria, and Stokholm, Sweden.

Research Interests

African/ American Concert Singers of the 19th and early 20th centuries

Memberships & Affiliations

• Mu Phi Epsilon - Music Fraternity