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Emma Johnson (clarinettist)

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Emma Johnson (born 1966, London) is a British clarinettist.

In 1984 she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, playing Bernhard Crusell's clarinet concerto in the televised final.[1]

She was a pupil at Newstead Wood School for Girls, Orpington and Sevenoaks School, and then went on to study first English and then Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Emma Johnson has released several CDs; recent releases have included a number of popular and jazz tracks in addition to standard classical repertoire. She plays a Peter Eaton clarinet.

The soundtrack to the BBC television series The Victorian Kitchen Garden, a suite made up of five short movements for clarinet and harp, was dedicated to Ms Johnson by the composer, Paul Reade.

References

  1. ^ "1984 Emma Johnson - Clarinet". BBC. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
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