The Cincinnati May Festival has announced that Jason Alexander Holmes will be the new Associate Director of Choruses and Director of the Youth Chorus.

Holmes has served as Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Boychoir since 2019 and also directs the MLK Chorale and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Classic Roots Community Chorus. He has also worked with such organizations as The Carnegie in Covington, Cincinnati Children’s Theatre, and the Cincinnati Opera as a pianist and music director. He has also been a vocalist with the Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble and numerous other choral ensembles.

“Having worked closely with the May Festival in our many collaborations, it is an honor to join the May Festival team,” said Holmes in an official press statement. “I am grateful for the opportunity because I believe my personal mission of using choral music to create and share moments of truth and beauty meshes quite well with the May Cincinnati May Festival Announces Jason Alexander Holmes as New Associate Director of Choruses, Director of the Youth Chorus | 2 Festival’s mission to engage, energize, and connect our community with the highest quality choral music.”

“We are thrilled that Jason Alexander Holmes will be joining the May Festival staff,” added Matthew Swanson, the next Director of Choruses. “Jason is a skilled musician, an experienced educator, and an asset to Cincinnati’s choral community. He has worked very closely with the May Festival team over the years in a number of multi-chorus collaborations, including Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand and the 25 for 25 Commissioning Project as part of the May Festival’s 150th anniversary season, as well as Youth Voices United, a choral festival for local middle and high school students. I look forward to all that Jason will do to positively impact the lives of our youth chorus members through singing.”