evan johnson - composer

<body> <p><a href="index.htm">Evan Johnson</a> (b. 1980) is a young American composer whose music focuses on the physical and bodily underpinnings of instrumental performance, the ontology of time and proportion, and the dramatic limitation of instrumental means and musical material.  He received his Ph.D. in composition from the <a href="http://www.music.buffalo.edu/composition" tabindex="1" title="SUNY Buffalo Department of Music" target="_blank">State University of New York at Buffalo</a>, where he studied with David Felder as a Presidential Fellow; other teachers include Johannes Schöllhorn, Chaya Czernowin, Richard Barrett and Brian Ferneyhough.  A <em>summa cum laude </em>graduate from <a href="http://www.yale.edu" title="Yale University" target="_blank">Yale University</a> in 2002,  Johnson has been invited to numerous composition seminars and festivals in the USA, Canada and Europe. </p> <p>Johnson has received awards from, among others, the <a href="http://www.societyfornewmusic.org" title="Society for New Music" target="_blank">Society for New Music</a> (2003 Brian M. Israel Prize), the <a href="http://www.nyae.org" title="New York Art Ensemble" target="_blank">New York Art Ensemble</a> (Young Composers’ Competition 2001), <a href="http://www.bmi.com" title="BMI" target="_blank">Broadcast Music, Inc.</a> (a 2000 BMI Student Composer Award and Carlos Surinach Prize), the Washington Conservatory of Music (the 1997 Sotireos Vlahopoulos Young Composer’s Prize), and <a href="http://www.yale.edu" title="Yale University" target="_blank">Yale University</a> (the Joseph Lentilhon Selden Memorial Award, in connection with which his music was described as “intellectually, technically, and emotionally rich and assured,” the Abraham Beekman Cox Prize, and the Friends of Music Prize for his orchestral work <em>Horizontals White over Dark</em>).  </p> <p>His music has been performed in the USA, Canada, France, Germany and Austria by musicians such as <a href="http://www.ensemble-surplus.de" title="Ensemble SurPlus" target="_blank">Ensemble SurPlus</a>; the <a href="http://www.nem.umontreal.ca/index.aspx" title="NEM" target="_blank">Nouvel Ensemble Modern</a>; the <a href="http://www.societyfornewmusic.org/" title="Society for New Music" target="_blank">Society for New Music</a>; pianists <a href="http://www.ianpace.com" title="Ian Pace" target="_blank">Ian Pace</a>, <a href="http://www.sebastianberweck.de" title="Sebastian Berweck" target="_blank">Sebastian Berweck</a>, and <a href="http://www.bmv.org/bios/ensemble/Burleson/" title="Geoffrey Burleson" target="_blank">Geoffrey Burleson</a>; clarinetist Gareth Davis; the Quatuor Bozzini; the <a href="http://www.nyme.org" title="New York Miniaturist Ensemble" target="_blank">New York Miniaturist Ensemble</a>; and soloists from the <a href="http://www.nationalsymphony.org" target="_blank">National Symphony Orchestra</a>, among others.  Current projects include a new work for the choral group <a href="http://www.exaudi.org.uk" title="EXAUDI" target="_blank">EXAUDI</a> and a second collaboration with toy pianist <a href="http://www.isabelettenauer.com" target="_blank">Isabel Ettenauer</a>.  His translation of Helmut Lachenmann’s article “On my Second String Quartet” appeared in a recent issue of <em>Contemporary Music Review</em>.</p> <p><a href="navbar.htm" target="_self">Contents</a></p> <p> </p> </body>