Ben johnson tenor biography template
Tenor, conductor, artistic director, teacher.
A former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award, he was also an English National Opera Harewood Artist and a Wigmore....
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Acclaimed tenor Ben Johnson represented England in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2013 and won the Audience Prize.
Johnson is a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, 2008 winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award, 2011 Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent, and a 2013-2015 English National Opera Harewood Artist. He is the Founder and Chief Conductor of the Southrepps Sinfonia as well as joint Artistic Director of the Southrepps Classical Music Festival.
He is professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Highlights of the 2016⁄17 season include Jaquino in Beethoven Fidelio with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski, Mozart Requiem with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and with Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Idamante in Mozart Idomeneo with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, and Bliss The Beatitudes with the