Emma Johnson
Emma Johnson is one of a small number of clarinetists to have established a major career on the concert stage. She regularly appears as soloist, chamber player, and recitalist in a broad range of repertory standards by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Crusell, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Debussy, Copland, and Hindemith, and she also performs lighter works by Joplin, Gershwin, Leroy Anderson, and countless others. Johnson plays more than 40 concertos and her repertory also includes compositions of her own as well as a fair measure of other contemporary music by such composers as John Dankworth, John Barry, and Howard Blake. Johnson has toured across the U.K., U.S., Europe, Japan, Australia, and Africa and has appeared at such prestigious venues as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Barbican Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Johnson has also taken up conducting, leading such ensembles as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Mozart Players. She has made numerous recordings for ASV, Naxos, and other labels.
Emma Johnson was born in the London borough of Barnet on May 20, 1966. She began lessons on the clarinet at nine and from age 15 played in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Johnson won the prestigious BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in 1984, and the following year debuted in the recording studio and at Barbican Hall, both in performances of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto.
Johnson managed to continue her concert career on a limited basis as a student at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where she initially studied English. While there she took clarinet lessons from Jack Brymer and Sidney Fell. In 1987 John Dankworth wrote Suite for Emma for her, one of many major composers have written for her.
In 1991 Johnson won the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York City and later gave her recital debut at Carnegie Hall. Throughout the 1990s Johnson made a string of popular recordings for ASV, which included two encore discs, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and the 1995 Sir Malcolm Arnold: The Complete Works for Clarinet.
In 1996 Johnson was awarded an MBE from the British government. She has remained busy in the new century on all fronts, appearing not only in regular concerts but at festivals like the Mostly Mozart at the Barbican, where in 2006 she performed the Mozart concerto. Among her more acclaimed recordings is the 2009 Naxos CD of Dankworth's Suite for Emma and sonatas by Bernstein and Copland.
Johnson has continued to earn acclaim for performances of traditional repertory; her 2012 recording of sonatas by Brahms, recorded like several other Johnson releases with pianist John Lenehan, was hailed by the Observer as "a landmark disc." She has also branched out into jazz and other vernacular genres, artfully mixed together on her 2016 release Clarinet Goes to Town. Johnson has performed and conducted workshops for children, sometimes using a musical dramatization of the Pied Piper story. The Times of London has called Johnson simply "Britain's favourite clarinettist."
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Artistas semelhantes
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Emma Johnson / Voyage
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 1 de jan. de 2004
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Crusell, Kozeluch, Krommer: Clarinet Concertos
Emma Johnson, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Günther Herbig
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 1 de jan. de 1991
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Songs of Celebration
Emma Johnson, The Choir of Gloucester Cathedral, Adrian Partington
Classical - Lançado por Nimbus Alliance em 2 de set. de 2022
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Vaughan Williams: Partita, 3 Vocalises, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, The Lark Ascending
Emma Johnson, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, The London Festival Orchestra, Ross Pople, Iona Brown
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 1 de jul. de 2002
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Crusell: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 / Weber: Concertino / Rossini: Introduction, Theme and Variations
Emma Johnson, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 1 de jan. de 1986
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Clarinet Goes to Town
Emma Johnson, John Lenehan, Paul Clarvis
Tango - Lançado por Nimbus Alliance em 11 de nov. de 2016
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Emma Johnson & Friends
Emma Johnson, Michael Thompson, Philip Gibbon, Chris West, Carducci String Quartet
Chamber Music - Lançado por SOMM Recordings em 26 de fev. de 2016
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Finzi: Clarinet Concerto; 5 Bagatelles / Stanford: Clarinet Concerto; 3 Intermezzi
Emma Johnson, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 1 de jan. de 1992
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Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; Clarinet Quintet
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 1 de jan. de 2004
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BOTTESINI COLLECTION (The), Vol. 1
Jose Luis Garcia, Emma Johnson, Thomas Martin, English Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Classical - Lançado por Naxos em 9 de dez. de 1999
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Arnold: The Complete Works for Clarinet
Emma Johnson, English Chamber Orchestra, Ivor Bolton
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 1 de jan. de 1995
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The Essential Emma Johnson
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 1 de jan. de 1999
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COPLAND, A. / BERNSTEIN, L.: Clarinet Sonatas / DANKWORTH, J.: Suite for Emma / Picture of Jeannie (Johnson)
Classical - Lançado por Naxos em 24 de fev. de 2009
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Beethoven, Küffner & Strauss: Chamber Works
Chamber Music - Lançado por SOMM Recordings em 4 de jan. de 2019
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Weber: The 2 Clarinet Concertos; Concertino; Grand Duo Concertant
Emma Johnson, English Chamber Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 20 de mai. de 1997
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Pastoral - British Clarinet Music
Emma Johnson, Judith Howarth, Malcolm Martineau
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 1 de jan. de 1994
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The Mozart Album
Emma Johnson, Contempo String Quartet, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 1 de jan. de 2005
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Weber: Clarinet Concerto No.1; Tartini: Concertino etc
Emma Johnson, English Chamber Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 1 de jul. de 1987
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Mozart / Weber: Clarinet Quintets
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 1 de jan. de 2000
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Julian Dawes: Chamber Works
Matthew Trusler, Stephen Stirling, Gemma Rosefield, Emma Johnson, Gordon Back
Chamber Music - Lançado por Omnibus Classics em 26 de set. de 2011
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Encores
Emma Johnson, Julius Drake, Skaila Kanga
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 1 de jan. de 1992
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