Robert Holm is Professor of Music at the University of South Alabama, where he teaches private piano, offers class piano instruction to piano majors and concentrations, directs piano ensemble and serves as accompanist for the Musical Arts Series. In addition, Holm is past president of the Mobile Music Teachers Association, pianist for the Mobile Symphony Orchestra and at Dauphin Way Baptist Church.

Holm began playing the piano at age five and later studied at the University of Illinois School of Music with Professor Kenneth Drake, where, in 1999, he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Literature. He was a semi-finalist at the 4th International Adilia Alieva Competition (2004) in Gaillard, France, a finalist at both the 2003 International Franz Liszt Competition in Grottammare, Italy and the 2002 International Bartók-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev Competition in Radford, Virginia, and Third Prize winner at the 1997 International Beethoven Piano Sonata Competition in Memphis, Tennessee.

Holm has appeared several times as soloist with the Mobile Symphony Orchestra performing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Rachmaninoff’s Second Concerto under the direction of Scott Speck as well as Liszt’s Concerto No. 1 in E-flat under the direction of guest conductor Apo Hsu. Holm has performed as soloist and collaborative artist throughout the United States and Canada, including appearances at Carnegie (Weill) Hall, the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society, World Saxophone Congress, North American Saxophone Alliance, International Trombone Festival, National Flute Association, Alabama Music Teachers Association, Mississippi Music Teachers Association, Saint Paul’s United Methodist Concert Series in Coronado, California, Nagamichi Concert Series at Stonehill College, Massachusetts, Freeport, Illinois Community Concert Series, and regularly at the Fairhope (Alabama) Concert Series and at the Mobile Symphony Chamber Music Series.

From January 27-30, 2006 Holm presented four recitals of 18 sonatas by Mozart in honor of the composer’s 250th birthday and in October 2007, Holm completed a four-year, eight-recital series featuring the thirty-two sonatas by Beethoven. In February 2006, Holm and French pianist Axel Lenarduzzi performed two-piano works by Mozart, Brahms and Rachmaninoff at the University of South Alabama, where in November 2006 Holm played his 100th full program. In 2007-2008, solo recitals were given at Point Loma Nazarene University, Washington State University and Pensacola Junior College, and the Archduke Piano Trio including Holm, violinist Enen Yu and cellist Guo-Sheng Huang performed at the Fairhope Recital Series, University of Mississippi, University of Mobile and Spring Hill College. In summer 2008, duo recitals with Axel Lenarduzzi were given at Samford University, University of Southern Mississippi, University of West Florida, University of South Alabama.

Holm has released several CD’s featuring sonatas by Beethoven on period instruments, sonatas by Mozart, works by Scarlatti, Liszt and Ravel, two-piano music by Mozart, Brahms and Rachmaninoff with pianist Axel Lenarduzzi, two CD’s of sacred hymn arrangements, and 10 original arrangements of sacred Christmas music.