Brandon Hollihan

About Me

Dr. Brandon Hollihan has enjoyed a varied career as a conductor, singer, keyboardist, educator, church musician, and performer. Before his appointment at Morehead State University, he served as Director of Choral Activities at Carson-Newman University in East Tennessee. During his time there, he led the choral program in major oratorio performances, outreach to area schools and churches, and a performance at the Tennessee Music Education Association Professional Development Conference with the A Cappella Choir in the spring of 2026.

Recent conducting credits for Dr. Hollihan include Messiah, Faure's Requiem, Vivaldi's Magnificat RV 611, Brahms' Liebeslieder Wälzer, op. 52, Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, with Dr. Ryan Fogg playing piano. He has sung professionally with Opera Columbus and South Bend Lyric Opera, and in August of 2024, presented a staged dramatization of Schubert's Winterreise at Carson-Newman with his wife, Dr. Junghwa Lee, playing piano.

Dr. Hollihan earned his Bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Notre Dame and dual Master’s degrees from The Ohio State University. His teaching philosophy emphasizes "maximizing" one's musical curriculum, asserting that the quality of musical output is far more important than its quantity.