Artist Sponsorship: Holden Turner

Holden Turner - a baritone from Rochester, NY, is currently a senior at the Eastman School of Music, studying under Professor Nicole Cabell. Turner was most recently seen as a Vocal Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival during the Summer of 2024. He has been seen in numerous productions with the Eastman Opera Theatre and has also been seen as a featured soloist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He’s been honored to perform as a Baritone Soloist for the Finger Lakes Opera on many occasions, The Rochester Oratorio Society, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Eastman Philharmonia and Eastman-Rochester Chorus, SUNY Geneseo Symphony Orchestra and Festival Singers, Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, and many more in and out of the community of Rochester. Turner has worked with a vast number of artists, ranging from Jon Batiste to Dawn Upshaw and Andris Nelsons. He is the current recipient of both the Rochester Links Organization’s “Young, Gifted & Black” Scholarship and the William Warfield Scholarship at Eastman.