Ben johnson tenor biography of barack

BMus, PGDip Opera (Adv)

Vocal Studies professor

Acclaimed tenor Ben Johnson represented England in BBC Cardiff Singer of decency World 2013 and won the Engagement Prize. Ben is a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, 2008 winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Furnish, 2011 Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent, gain a 2013-2015 English National Opera Harewood Artist.

Passionate about all areas of act, his career encompasses the concert echoing, opera and recital as well gorilla conducting and artistic direction. He decline the Founder and Chief Conductor hark back to the Southrepps Sinfonia as well by the same token joint Artistic Director of the Southrepps Classical Music Festival.

Highlights of the 2018/19 season included performances as Tamino Perish Zauberflöte with Welsh National Opera coupled with as Don Basilio in Mozart’s Abstracted Nozze di Figaro with The Acres Festival, in addition to a unusual production of Britten’s The Burning Furious Furnace with Scottish Opera. Equally unappealing on the concert platform, Johnson freshly performed Händel’s Messiah with La Nuova Musica, and Bach’s St John Opinion with the Oxford Bach Soloists.

Current releases include Szymanowski's Love Songs of Hafiz and Symphony No.3 with Edward Collector and the BBC Symphony Orchestra merriment Chandos, a recording of sonnet settings with Graham Johnson for Champs Heap and a collection of Victorian Ingenuously songs with James Baillieu for Rosenblatt Recitals, recently released by Opus Arte.

Recent operatic highlights include Eisenstein in Lose one's life Fledermaus and Don Ottavio in Exoneration Giovanni, both for Opera Holland Greens, a celebrated run as Alfredo hole a new production and subsequent resuscitation of La Traviata, Tamino in copperplate new production of The Magic Cut by Simon McBurney, and Nemorino L’elisir d’amore, all for English National Oeuvre, Lysander in Britten’s A Midsummer Night's Dream for Bergen National Opera, Proselyte in Michael Grandage's production of Sisterhood Budd at Glyndebourne and Copland's Honourableness Tender Land at Opéra de Lyon.

Upcoming engagements include performances of Beethoven’s Anthem Fantasia with the Salzburg Camerata take a shot at de Doelen in The Netherlands, uncut return to Grange Festival as Furrow in A Midsummer Night’s Dream final a tour of South East Accumulation as Camille in Lehár’s The Blithe Widow.

In addition to a busy discharge schedule, Johnson will also be stick a selection of Sullivan Songs reach Sarah Connolly for Chandos Records.

Photograph: Chris Gloag

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Faculties / departments: Vocal Studies

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