John Holloway (born 19 July 1948) is a British baroque violinist and conductor,[1] currently based in Dresden, Germany.
After an encounter with Sigiswald Kuijken in 1972, he started playing the Baroque violin and gained a reputation as violinist, teacher and conductor in the field of historically informed performance.
In 1999, he began to teach at the Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden.
In 2005 he founded jointly with Belgian conductor and harpsichordist Florian Heyerick [nl] and a music agent the Mannheimer Hofkapelle, which in the summer of 2007 could be heard for the first time in 300 years with its original complement of 40 musicians.
[3] His CD recordings of the Rosary Sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Biber and of Sonatas Opus 5 of Jean-Marie Leclair won the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik ("German Record Critics' Award").