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Corcoran Holt
Double Bass

Corcoran Holt performs regularly at many of the top music festivals and venues around the world. Some have included the North Sea Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, the Village Vanguard, the Blue Note and Dizzy's Club Coca Cola to name a few. Holt has performed throughout North, Central and South America; Europe; Asia; Africa and the Caribbean. In 2009, he toured the Middle East as a jazz ambassador representing the United States, under the U.S. State Department with Alvin Atkinson & the Sound Merchants. In September 2010, he traveled part of the Rhythm Roads tour with Nasar Abadey and Supernova to East Africa, a collaboration between the U.S. State Department and Jazz at the Lincoln Center.

Holt was semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk Bass Competition in 2009 and recorded on Jamison Ross' Jamison, Concord Records 2015, which was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Jazz Vocal category.

Corcoran Holt graduated in 2004 from Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University with a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies.

Visit www.corcoranholt.com to learn more.