ADAM JOHNSON (composer)

“Terrific” Thomas Ades 2012

A multi prize-winning composer, Adam Johnson studied at the Royal Northern College of Music.

also attending masterclases with Steve Martland and John McCabe. In 2012, Adam was a finalist of the Villiers Quartet Composition Competition for his 4th String Quartet” Four Artists.” In 2011 he was elected as a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and more recently was accepted as Member of the Royal Society of Musicians, and given the Freedom of the City of London in 2019.

He continues to delight his audiences composing, conducting his orchestra ‘Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra’ and performing with his incomparable pianistic style across Europe. His music and recordings have received many awards and critical acclaim, recently winning the 2019 Norfolk composition award, the Finnish Music Foundation Prize 2019 for his recent piano recording on Grand Piano Label, and a commission for a piece with 4 pianos for the 5th Hong Kong International Piano Competition.

His 2nd String Quartet “Surrender Him the Apocolyptic Chrysalis” (1999) was given its world premiére at the Montepulciano Festival, Italy in the same year and further won him the Edward Hecht Prize for Composition. The following year, the Goldberg Ensemble commissioned Johnson to write a work inspired by Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, and in 2004 he composed El Shahid (The Martyrs) commissioned by the Metropolitan Ensemble.

As a pianist, Adam has performed under the baton of Kent Nagano, Martyn Brabbins, and George Hurst, making his Concerto debut aged 15 playing Mozart Piano Concerto No. 15 in Pavlovsk Palace, St. Petersburg, which he conducted from the piano. He regularly performs concertos at St. Martin-in-the-Fields London, and will make his RTÉ Concert Orchestra debut in 2019 playing Rhapsody in Blue.

亞當•莊遜 （作曲家）

湯瑪斯·阿德斯 2012

獲獎無數的作曲家亞當•莊遜在皇家北方音樂學院師從安東尼•吉伯特博士、埃琳娜•菲索娃博士和西蒙•霍爾特。 在此期間，他也參加過史蒂夫·馬特蘭和約翰•麥卡比的大師班。

他的第二弦樂四重奏《交出末世蛹》（1999年）在當年的義大利蒙特普爾西亞諾音樂節上世界首演，並於同年為他贏得了愛德華•赫希特作曲獎。

第二年，戈德堡合奏團委託莊遜創作了一部受聖桑《動物狂歡節》啟發的作品；2004年，他受大都會合奏團委約，創作了《烈士》。

年僅20歲時，亞當在紐約與和傳奇電影作曲家約翰•巴里一起首次在電視上亮相，拍攝了名為《大師班》（天頂北製作）系列。

2012年，亞當以他的第四弦樂四重奏《四藝人》入圍了維利爾斯四重奏作曲大賽決賽。

作為一名鋼琴家，亞當曾在長野健、馬丁•布拉賓斯和喬治•赫斯特的指揮下演奏，15歲時在聖彼德堡帕夫洛夫斯克宮演奏莫札特第15號鋼琴協奏曲，由他本人兼任指揮。他經常在倫敦聖馬丁演奏協奏曲，並將在2019年與愛爾蘭廣播電台音樂會樂團首次合作，演奏《藍色狂想曲》。

被評論家描述為「一種啟示」（《每日電訊報》）的莊遜繼續指揮他的管弦樂隊「北極光交響樂團」，並在整個歐洲以無與倫比的鋼琴風格表演取悅他的觀眾。他的音樂和錄音獲得了許多獎項和好評，最近他在以為Grand Piano廠牌錄製的鋼琴專集贏得了2019年諾福克作曲獎和2019年芬蘭音樂基金會獎，並受委約為第五屆香港國際鋼琴大賽創作一首四鋼琴作品。

2011年，他被選為倫敦城音樂家同業公會的自由人，最近又被授予英國皇家音樂家協會會員，並在 2019 年被授予倫敦市自由獎。

個人網頁： www.adamjohnsonmusic.com