Bassist Corcoan Holt

Corcoran Holt bass

Corcoran Holt starts a classical education at the DC youth Orchestra at the age of ten and later attends Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington DC. There he begins playing jazz, studying with renown teachers such as Carolyn Kellock, Keter Betts and Steve Novasel. While at Ellington he also tours Austria, Germany, France, London, and Jamaica. He continues his studies at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia where he completes a Bachelors Degree in Jazz Studies. Holt has been a regular in the Washington DC Jazz scene for at least seven years - even throughout college. More recently Holt is working with greats such as Curtis Fuller, Wallace Roney, Javon Jackson, John Hicks, Carl Allen and Charles Davis. He has spent the last two summers in Senegal, performing in Dakar, and - leading his own group - at the St. Louis Jazz Festival.