Eric C. Lindholm

Eric Lindholm has conducted a wide range of repertoire for both orchestra and opera, both in the United States and abroad. 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.  In opera, 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.

In his work with the Pomona College Orchestra, repertoire highlights include Act III of Wagner's Die Walküre, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker with the Inland Pacific Ballet, Mahler's Symphony No. 1, Stravinsky's Petrushka and The Rite of Spring, Nielsen's Symphony No. 4 ("The Inextinguishable"), Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, and Shostakovich's symphonies No. 8 and No. 10.