MIKE HOLOBER
Genres: Progressive Big Band, Post Bop, Vocal Jazz, Third Stream, 21st Century Modern • United States

Pianist, composer/arranger, and educator Mike Holober served as Artistic Director/Conductor of the Westchester Jazz Orchestra (WJO) from 2007-2013 and since 2011 he has been Associate Guest Conductor of the HR Big Band (Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, Germany). With WJO he has written and conducted for Joe Lovano, Kate McGarry, John Scofield, John Patitucci, Randy Brecker, and Paquito D’Rivera.   Recent projects with the HR Big Band include writing and conducting for Kurt Rosenwinkel, Billy Cobham, Jane Monheit, Terje Rypdal, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Miguel Zenon. Upcoming projects with HR include a concert of the works of Frank Zappa for the 2015 Frankfurt Jazz festival. In January of 2014 he wrote and conducted a project for the WDR Big Band in Cologne, featuring Avishai Cohen and Eli Degibri. Upcoming with WDR is a project for drummer Al Foster. He has also recently written for Joshua Redman with the WDR Big Band read more...