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Introducing Artist VIP
Jean
Johnson - Renowned Soloist and Chamber Music
Artist in the United Kingdom
email:
jjclarinet@hotmail.com
Biography
American Clarinetist Jean Johnson is a busy international collaborator in
chamber music and as such has performed in some of world's finest venues,
notably the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, and the
Esplanade Singapore. As a soloist, Ms. Johnson has been featured with the
Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Wuhan Symphony Orchestra (China), and in Scotland
with concertos by John McLeod and Steve King. As a chamber musician, Ms.
Johnson has a regular duo with her husband, pianist Steven Osborne, and is a
member of the critically acclaimed chamber ensemble, "Daniel's Beard" in
Glasgow. Notable chamber music festivals include Spannungen, BOZAR,
Schwetzingen, Prussia Cove, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, St. Magnus
Festival, West End Festival Glasgow, and has collaborated with artists around
the world and groups including the Hebrides Ensemble, T'ang Quartet, and the
Edinburgh Quartet. She regularly performs recitals throughout the UK, America,
and further afield.
Ms. Johnson
began her career with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra both as Associate and
Acting Principal. Now in the UK, she performs regularly with major British
orchestras and as a guest Principal has worked with orchestras including Bergen
Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra,
Camerata Ireland, among others. She remains a devoted educator and teaches at
Scotland's premiere specialist music school, St. Mary's Music School in
Edinburgh. She has presented masterclasses around the world and maintains a
private studio.
Jean Johnson was
born in Orange, Massachusetts and was a student of Michael
Sussman at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She went on to
attend Indiana University as an Associate Instructor in Clarinet, studying
with Eli Eban and Alfred Prinz. As a
Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival she studied with Theodore
Oien.
Jean has recently
released an album of Brahms and Rózsa Clarinet Sonatas on
the Avie label which has received rave reviews from The New
York Times, Gramophone Magazine, Klassieke
Zaken, among other publications.
"Sense of freedom and
flair", "bounding with energy" -the Scotsman
"Brooding passion", "Majestic sense of space and gravitas" and
"grand sweep" -the Guardian
"...fine recording by the poised clarinetist Jean Johnson. Beautiful
renditions of Brahms’s Clarinet Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 round out this
lovely album." (Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim) -NEW YORK TIMES
"Brings out the expressive character of every
phrase...exceptional leggiero playing...beautifully paced...style
and spirit".- Gramophone Magazine
Agendas and Performance and
Teaching Philosophy
Message from Jean Johnson
Recordings linked here
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