GrahamJohnson
- Accompanist
About Graham
Described as "that peerless song accompanist” by the Daily Telegraph, Graham Johnson has performed with the world's leading recitalists, and has recorded extensively for Hyperion Records.
He is Senior Professor of Accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was made an OBE in the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours list, created Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Government in 2002 and made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2010. In 2013 he was awarded the Wigmore Hall Medal, and received Honorary Doctorates from both Durham University and the New England Conservatory of Music. He was awarded the Hugo Wolf Medal in 2014 for his services to the art of song, and his three volume Schubert: The Complete Songs was also published in that year.
Contact
Hannah Bishay
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Video
- Playing
Robin Tritschler & Graham Johnson - Ives: Ich grolle nicht, Oxford Lieder Festival 2020
“Gramophone Magazine wrote last year of Robin Tritschler’s performance of Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte (‘To the distant beloved’) that ‘he combines something of Fritz Wunderlich’s warmth with Christian Gerhaher’s altogether darker introspection, and is beautifully alert to the cycle’s constant shifts of emotion and mood’.” Credit: Oxford Lieder Festival
Graham Johnson - Oxford Lieder Festival
Credit: © Oxford Lieder
News
Press
I Live Alone in My Song: Great Song Cycles of Gustav Mahler
Wigmore Hall, LondonMar 2022Graham like a great German orchestra presided at the piano producing colours and sounds with a sense of balance and architectural shape that only augmented and illuminated the searing intensity of Mahler’s deep journey into our soul. 24 March 2022
- christopheraxworthymusiccommentary
- 24 March 2022
Poulenc: The Life in the Songs
Book reviewGraham Johnson is a veteran British pianist and accompanist who has made himself indispensable to the art of the song... His new Poulenc book is a greatly expanded version of the already lavish and lively program notes that accompanied the recordings.
- Alex Ross, The New Yorker
- 10 August 2020
