ADAM JOHNSON
CONDUCTOR
Adam Johnson is one of the most versatile and exciting young musicians to have founded his own orchestra in recent years.
The Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra, of which he is both Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, has attracted the attention of concert-goers in London since its formation in 2007.
Adam began his International Conducting career aged 15 in St. Petersburg and has subsequently appeared as Principal Conductor of Elemental Opera, RNCM Opera, and as Guest Conductor of Southbank Sinfonia, Suffolk Sinfonia, Oxford University Symphony Orchestra.
Winner of the Ricordi Operatic Conducting Prize whilst still studying under Sir Mark Elder CBE, Adam Johnson was invited to assist Ari Benjamin Meyers on his multi-media contemporary theatre work Il tempo di Postino as part of the Manchester International Festival. His outstanding contribution to the production led the following year to associate conductorship of the London première of Jonathan Dove's opera Flight with British Youth Opera under Nicholas Cleobury.
His subsequent operatic successes have included direction of Karol Szymanowski's rarely performed King Roger and Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia for Elemental Opera, a young innovative touring company with whom he enjoys an ongoing partnership.
Future plans include developing an ambitious educational programme in inner London with the Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra, which enjoys a residency at St Saviour's Church, Pimilco.
In 2011 he was elected as a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and more recently was rewarded as a Member of the Royal Society of Musicians.
