Christopher Holman is an American harpsichordist, organist, countertenor, and vocal coach based in Houston, Texas, who specializes in historically-informed performance practice and pedagogy in music of the seventeenth century. As an organist, he has performed throughout North America, won the Albert Schweitzer Competition, and has appeared as with the Bach Society Houston, the American Guild of Organists, and various chamber groups. As a singer, he has performed with Tafelmusik, the Houston Symphony, Spire Chamber Ensemble, and others. In 2014, he founded the Urbana Bach Cantatas Project, a professional choir and period instrument ensemble. His principal teachers include Robert Bates, Dana Robinson, Matthew Dirst, and Charlotte Mattax. He is delighted to return as music director of Le Château de la Voix’s production of Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco’s La púrpura de la rosa, the first opera composed in the New World, accompanied by period instrument orchestra.