Brad Holmes holds the DMA in choral conducting from Arizona State University. Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities at Millikin since 1991, Dr. Holmes teaches conducting and choral methods in addition to directing the University Choir and Concert Choir. He has been a guest conductor for festivals throughout the United States including All-State choirs in Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico, Indiana and Illinois. He has received numerous invitations to conduct overseas. He served a term in Cambridge, England as a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College. While there he conducted the Clare College Choir for services of evensong and consulted in recording sessions on the Collegium label. Other guest conducting invitations have taken him to the Far East to work with students from Japan, Korea, China and the Philippines. In June 2006 he traveled to England to conduct a special concert of American music with the Royal Free Singers of Windsor. Under his direction, the Millikin University Choir has been invited to sing at both the regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association as well as state MEA conventions in both Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois. The choir has performed on concert series throughout the US during annual tours and has produced four CDs under Dr. Holmes' direction.