{"id":2666,"date":"2017-10-12T17:44:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T17:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2017-10-12T17:51:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T17:51:53","slug":"spotlight-on-alumni-james-holden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/2017\/10\/12\/spotlight-on-alumni-james-holden\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Alumni:  James Holden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/files\/2017\/10\/james-holdenjr.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/files\/2017\/10\/james-holdenjr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><strong>James Holden<\/strong>\u2019s (&#8217;75 BME, &#8217;77 MME) musical leadership includes interim Director of Bands, Director of Virginia State University&#8217;s Jazz Ensemble and Chamber Woodwind Ensemble. He served as advisor to VSU\u2019s award winning Gospel Chorale and the HBCU IAJE All-Star Jazz Ensemble. He has also served as a faculty member at Virginia Union University and Jackson State University<\/p>\n<p>Holden, a Mississippi native, received undergraduate and graduate degrees in Music Education from Jackson State University.\u00a0 He did post-graduate studies at North Texas State University and Berklee School of Music.\u00a0 A world-class educator\/musician, Holden has performed with B.B. King, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Michael Bolton and Solomon Burke for the Pope Benedict Christmas Concert.<\/p>\n<p>Holden continues to perform as a member of the Virginia Saxophone Quartet, the Renaissance Big Band, the Richmond Symphony Pops and the Holden\/Thomas Saxophone Duo. He serves on the Petersburg Symphony Board and is active in the arts and music education throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Holden\u2019s (&#8217;75 BME, &#8217;77 MME) musical leadership includes interim Director of Bands, Director of Virginia State University&#8217;s Jazz Ensemble and Chamber Woodwind Ensemble. He served as advisor to VSU\u2019s award winning Gospel Chorale and the HBCU IAJE All-Star Jazz Ensemble. He has also served as a faculty member at Virginia Union University and Jackson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}