Citizenship: USA
Born in Minneapolis MN
CURRENT POSITIONS:
Pianist and Conductor- see Events Page
Minnehaha Music/ Artistic Director
Finnish Classical Music Past and Present Concert Series/ Artistic Director and Organizer
Masterworks Chorale/ Augsburg University, Minneapolis/ Accompanist
Principal Double Bassist: Marquette Symphony Orchestra, Marquette MI
Studio Piano Teacher/ Solo Accompanist and Coach
Mr. Johnson is 'KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF THE LION OF FINLAND'
Decorated by the Ambassador of Finland to the United States in November, 2017, in Washington D.C.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Conducting and Music Direction
Collabortions: Productions and Programs
Piano Recitalist
Accompanist
Double Bassist
Management and Music Business
Finlandia Foundation ‘Performer of the Year’, as Pianist, in 1999
CD ‘Piano Music from Finland’, produced in 2002
American Composers Forum Grants Recipient
Finlandia Foundation Grants Recipient
Foreign Languages: German (fluent)
Some Italian and Finnish, a smattering of French
EDUCATION:
Degrees:
Northwestern University, Evanston IL Master of Music
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN B. A.
Additional Study:
Mozarteum Sommerakademie in Salzburg, Austria
Aspen Music School- Festival/ Aspen CO
Dartmouth Congregation of the Arts/ Hanover, NH
ASOL Conducting Workshops: Minneapolis, St. Louis, Pittsburgh
Berliner Dirigenten Werkstatt/ Berlin
Language Study:
Université Laval/ Québec, Canada (French Language Study)
University of Minnesota (Finnish Language Study)
Braunschweig Technical University (Italian Language Study)
Other Study:
William Mitchell College of Law/ St. Paul, MN (1984-85)
Conducting Professors:
Otmar Suitner: Mozarteum Sommerakademie in Salzburg (Three Summers)
Former GMB Staatskapelle Dresden, GMD Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
Charles Bruck: Monteux (Domaine) Conducting School. Conductor ORT Paris, Strasbourg Symphony
Richard Burgin: Jacksonville University. 30 years Concertmaster of the Boston
Symphony and Associate Conductor
Additional Study: Pavle Despalj, Bernard Rubenstein, Peter Schwarz
Aspen Conducting Faculty (Mester, Blomstedt, Torkanowsky),
ASOL Workshop Faculty (Daniel Lewis)
Berliner Dirigenten Werkstatt (1993)
Piano Professors:
Bernhard Weiser: Professor, University of Minnesota/ Minneapolis MN,
James Douglas Johnson: Private Study; then professor, Augsburg College MN
Double Bass Professors and Teachers:
James Clute: Bassist, Minnesota Orchestra and Professor, Univ. of Minnesota
Joseph Guastafeste: Principal Bassist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Warren Benfield: Bassist, Chicago Symphony and Professor at Northwestern University
Lucas Drew: Dartmouth College, then Professor at University of Florida/Coral Gables
Stuart Sankey: Aspen Music School; then Professor at University of Texas at Austin
Professional Memberships
- American Composers Forum
- American Federation of Musicians/ Local 30-73
- Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft/ Berlin
- International Society of Double Bassists (ISB)
- Music Teachers National Association/ (MNTA); Master Certificato
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