DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON

David Wilson-Johnson read Modern Languages at Cambridge University and studied singing at the Royal Academy of Music. He sang many rôles at Covent Garden over 21 years, and in Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva, Madrid, Turin, Paris, Rome and Salzburg. He has performed on over 200 recordings and sung under many distinguished conductors including Boulez, Bruggen, Colin Davis, Dutoit, Giulini, Jansons, Järvi, Mackerras, Masur, Montgomery, Previn, Rattle and Rozhdestvensky. His most notable stage rôles include those of King Priam in Tippett’s opera, Merlin in the opera by Albéniz, The Nose by Shostakovich and Saint François d’Assise by Messiaen. He teaches at Ferrandou, the summer school for singers he founded twenty years ago in the Dordogne valley, and at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam. His concerts and recitals in 2008/9 include performances with orchestras in Amsterdam, Brisbane, Chicago, London, Melbourne, Monte Carlo, Munich, Philadelphia, Rome, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, and a return to the BBC Proms. He is Professor of Singing at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, and lives between houses in London, Amsterdam and France.

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Role: Classical Artist
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