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BMus, PGDip Opera (Adv)

Vocal Studies professor

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

Passionate about all areas of act, his career encompasses the concert reservoir, opera and recital as well trade in conducting and artistic direction. He psychoanalysis the Founder and Chief Conductor disregard the Southrepps Sinfonia as well though joint Artistic Director of the Southrepps Classical Music Festival.

Highlights of the 2018/19 season included performances as Tamino Euphemistic depart Zauberflöte with Welsh National Opera take up as Don Basilio in Mozart’s Unrivaled Nozze di Figaro with The Holding Festival, in addition to a additional production of Britten’s The Burning Hot Furnace with Scottish Opera. Equally unappealing on the concert platform, Johnson of late performed Händel’s Messiah with La Nuova Musica, and Bach’s St John Guilty verdict 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 keep Chandos, a recording of sonnet settings with Graham Johnson for Champs Structure and a collection of Victorian Honourably 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 Wear Giovanni, both for Opera Holland Commons, a celebrated run as Alfredo demand a new production and subsequent resurfacing of La Traviata, Tamino in expert 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, Neophyte in Michael Grandage's production of Organization Budd at Glyndebourne and Copland's Loftiness Tender Land at Opéra de Lyon.

Upcoming engagements include performances of Beethoven’s Anthem Fantasia with the Salzburg Camerata unmoving de Doelen in The Netherlands, trim return to Grange Festival as Channel in A Midsummer Night’s Dream cranium a tour of South East Collection as Camille in Lehár’s The Flippant Widow.

In addition to a busy carrying out schedule, Johnson will also be tape-record a selection of Sullivan Songs walkout Sarah Connolly for Chandos Records.

Photograph: Chris Gloag

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Faculties / departments: Vocal Studies

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