D. Kern Holoman, a UC Davis music professor and conductor of the campus symphony orchestra, will receive the 1995 $25,000 UC Davis Prize for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement. The prize is considered to be the largest in the nation and will be awarded to Holoman at a gala dinner May 9. Established by the UC Davis Foundation, the prize pays tribute to faculty members who demonstrate outstanding undergraduate teaching and remarkable scholarly achievement. "Professor Holoman is an internationally acclaimed scholar who cares deeply that his students grow intellectually and personally," says UC Davis Chancellor Larry N. Vanderhoef. "There is no more devoted a professor or more perfect model of the commitment and passion that he expects from his students." Holoman is known as an innovative classroom teacher. Among his efforts for students are his introductory music appreciation course, his work with the UCD Symphony Orchestra and his multimedia music-appreciation CD-ROM package to be published in 1996. His research as a musicologist focuses on the works of Hector Berlioz, a 19th-century French composer. Holoman's book, "Berlioz," a biography, was published in 1989 by Harvard University Press.