One of the few clarinettists to have established an international career as a soloist, Emma Johnson has performed throughout the world and is especially popular in Britain where her concerts regularly sell out and her discs appear in the classical CD charts. She studied the clarinet from the age of nine and in 1984 won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. She studied Music and English at Cambridge University and was recently the first woman to be awarded an honorary fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She was awarded an MBE in 1996.
Emma Johnson plays over forty concertos, some of which were written especially for her, with the world’s leading orchestras. She is also in demand as a recitalist and chamber musician. A new development in her career has seen her directing from the clarinet, as well as conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Mozart Players. Details of her recordings, concerts and publications are available on her website www.emmajohnson.co.uk.
Emma Johnson plays an instrument by the English clarinet-maker Peter Eaton.
