Graham Johnson (musician)
Graham Johnson ( * July 10, 1950 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia ) is a British pianist and accompanist.
Career
Johnson came as 17 -year-old to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music. Among his teachers in particular Gerald Moore and Geoffrey Parsons are worth mentioning. At 22, Johnson was used in 1972 as a pianist at Peter Pears ' first master class in The Maltings, which also brought him into contact with Benjamin Britten and became a major impetus to establish his career as an accompanist.
In 1976 he founded together with the singers ( inherent ) n Felicity Lott, Ann Murray, Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Richard Jackson Song Makers' Almanac to klavierbegleiteter of vocal music perform hitherto neglected repertoire again. This led over the next few decades to develop over 250 different recital programs.
Graham Johnson accompanied singers such as, inter alia, Thomas Allen, Victoria de los Ángeles, Elly Ameling, Arleen Augér, Janet Baker, Juliane Banse, Ian Bostridge, Elizabeth Connell, Brigitte Fassbaender, Matthias Goerne, Thomas Hampson, Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirschschlager, Philip Langridge, Sergei Leiferkus, Lipovšek, Edith Mathis, Hanno Müller- Brachmann, Lucia Popp, Christoph Prégardien, Margaret Price, Thomas Quasthoff, Dorothea Rosch husband, Peter Schreier, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
His signature accomplishments is the total recording of Schubert's Lieder with many internationally renowned song performer on the label Hyperion Records, known as The Hyperion Schubert Edition. Then he initiated similar projects for the same label with the songs of Robert Schumann and Gabriel Fauré. In addition, he took countless CDs with English art songs and thematically organized groups of songs for Hyperion and Collins.
All of these recordings gained her fame not only through the very pianistic share Johnsons, but also by its excellent researched explanations of the programs in the self-written by Johnson extensive booklets of CDs.
His recording of Francis Poulenc mélodies with Felicity Lott gained particular fame. He also took on songs by Saint- Saëns, Reynaldo Hahn, Déodat de Séverac, Emmanuel Chabrier and Louis Durey, to name just a few.
Johnson is one of the main representatives of the concert business 's Wigmore Hall in London.
Johnson is also the author of books on the French art song (together with Richard Stokes ), a documentation of lectures on the songs of Benjamin Britten, and a book about the songs Gabriel Fauré.
Johnson is a professor and holds master classes at music schools and festivals from. In 2010, his honorary membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS ) has been awarded.