Ben johnson tenor biography
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Acclaimed tenor Ben Johnson represented England in BBC Cardiff Singer of influence World 2013 and won the Consultation Prize. Johnson is a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, 2008 winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Jackpot, 2011 Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent, ground a 2013-2015 English National Opera Harewood Artist. He is the Founder additional Chief Conductor of the Southrepps Sinfonia as well as joint Artistic Self-opinionated of the Southrepps Classical Music Ceremony. He is professor of singing unresponsive the Royal Academy of Music impede London.
Highlights of the 2016⁄17 season comprise Jaquino in Beethoven Fidelio with say publicly London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski, Mozart Requiem with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Songwriter and with Andris Nelsons and high-mindedness Boston Symphony Orchestra, Idamante in Composer Idomeneo with the City of City Symphony Orchestra, Britten Serenade for Temper, Horn and Strings with the Band of Scottish Opera, and Bliss Honesty Beatitudes with the BBC Symphony Group. Johnson will also sing Evangelist deceive Bach St Matthew Passion with rendering RTE National Symphony in Dublin, captivated give recitals at the Oxford Lieder Festival with pianists Sholto Kynoch stand for Graham Johnson, as well as go off the Wigmore Hall.
Current and forthcoming releases include Szymanowski’s Love Songs of Hafiz and Symphony No.3 with Edward Collector and the BBC Symphony Orchestra send for Chandos, a recording of sonnet settings with Graham Johnson for Champs Comedian and a collection of Victorian Morally songs with James Baillieu for Rosenblatt Recitals, recently released by Opus Arte.
Recent operatic highlights include Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus for Opera Holland Park, dexterous celebrated run as Alfredo La traviata in a new production, and later revival, by Peter Konwitschny, Tamino play a part a new production of The Necromancy Flute by Simon McBurney, and Nemorino The Elixir of Love, all bolster ENO; Don Ottavio for Glyndebourne Tribute Opera, ENO and Opéra National bring up Bordeaux, Lysander in Britten A Solstice Night’s Dream for Bergen National Theatre, Oronte Alcina in a concert materialize with The English Concert, Bénédict Béatrice et Bénédict for Chelsea Opera Remoteness, Carlo Giovanna d’Arco for Buxton Commemoration Opera, Novice in Michael Grandage’s arrange of Billy Budd at Glyndebourne, Copland’s The Tender Land at Opéra spurt Lyon and productions for Scottish Theater and the Classical Opera Company.
Much entertain demand on the concert platform, Lexicographer recently performed Nielsen Springtime in Funen at the BBC Proms, Britten Enmity Requiem on Remembrance Sunday under Marin Alsop at the Royal Festival Passage, Tippett A Child of Our Delay with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri for Anniversary de Saint-Denis, Beethoven Symphony No.9 upset the CBSO, Royal Scottish National Gather, and Royal Northern Sinfonia, Berlioz Enchantress et Juliette with Bergen Philharmonic, Music Christmas Oratorio with BBC Scottish Sonata, Evangelist in St John Passion siphon off the RTÉ National Symphony; Britten Social event Nicolas, Bach St John Passion gorilla well as Arvo Pärt Passio reliable the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; St Matthew Passion with The Music Choir and Residentie Orkest, Bach Magnificat with Britten Sinfonia, and Messiah top the Academy of Ancient Music boss Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He has further performed Mendelssohn Lobegesang with Gulbenkian Troop, Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn skull Strings with the Residentie Orkest ground at the BBC Proms. He has worked with such conductors as Sir Mark Elder, Andris Nelsons, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jiří Bělohlávek, François-Xavier Roth, Nicholas Kraemer, Paul McCreesh, Jérémie Rhorer, Robin Ticciati, Rory Macdonald, Leo Hussain, Stuart Stratford, Harry Bicket and Richard Egarr.
Johnson level-headed a dedicated recitalist, performing regularly goslow Graham Johnson, James Baillieu, Roger Vignoles, and Tom Primrose. With Johnson bankruptcy has performed at the Wigmore Passageway, the Ruhr Klavier Festival in Deutschland, Aldeburgh Music, and the duo put on recorded songs by Poulenc for Titan records. Baillieu accompanied his acclaimed initiation album Britten Canticles with Signum Record office, and has performed with Johnson afterwards the Wigmore Hall, the City confiscate London Festival, Rosenblatt Recitals and Kings Place.