Patrick Holcomb

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Patrick Holcomb (b. 1996) is a composer based in Rochester, New York. Holcomb’s recent compositional honors include a 2023 ARTZenter Institute Emerging Composer Completion Grant, a 2023 Wayne Brewster Barlow Prize, the 2022 ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize, a 2021 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, a 2021 American Prize in Composition, and a 2020 BMI Student Composer Award. He has attended the American Composers Orchestra EarShot New Music Readings (in 2022), June in Buffalo (in 2022), the RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Workshop (in 2022), the Bowdoin International Music Festival (in 2021), the Brevard Music Center Summer Institute and Festival (in 2019 as a Composition Teaching Assistant), and Connecticut Summerfest (in 2017 and 2018).

Holcomb completed his undergraduate studies at Ithaca College, from which he graduated top of his class in the School of Music with a BM in Composition in 2018. He also earned an MM in Composition and an MM in Music Scoring for Visual Media from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2021. Holcomb is currently pursuing a PhD in Composition at the University of Rochester Eastman School of Music as a student of Robert Morris and a recipient of the Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull University Fellowship from the University of Rochester.