Johnson, Evan
* 1980
Evan Johnson (b. 1980) is an American composer whose music focuses on the physical underpinnings of instrumental performance, extreme notational situations, and the structural potential of conflicting repetitive and canonic structures. His music has been performed throughout North America, Europe and beyond by many prominent ensembles and soloists, and programmed at American and international festivals of contemporary music at Darmstadt, Witten, Huddersfield, Leuven (TRANSIT), Berlin (Klangwerkstatt), Bludenz, Los Angeles (the Monday Evening Concerts series), Buffalo, San Diego, and others. Recordings are available or forthcoming on the HCR, Metier, Mode, and New Focus labels.
The recipient of a Fellowship Prize at the 2012 Darmstadt Summer Courses and a 2011 Meet the Composer commission, Johnson has received commissions and awards from BMI/Concert Artists Guild, ASCAP, Columbia University (Bearns Prize), the Rhode Island Foundation, the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the Society for New Music, and Yale University, among others. He has held residencies at Copland House and the Millay Colony.
He received his Ph.D. in composition from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he studied with David Felder as a Presidential Fellow, and his B.A. from Yale.
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Largo calligrafico / "patientiam"
for baritone saxophone
Purchase materialL'art de toucher le clavecin, 3
three sequences; for piccolo with violin and percussion
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L'art de toucher le clavecin, 1
for piccolo
Purchase materialcontemptus mundi
for C clarinet and piano
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Del maravigliarsi
(Leonardo da Vinci); for soprano and piano
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Wolke über Bäumen
for violin (with gut strings and baroque bow)
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dust book
for viola d'amore
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for bass clarinet
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Woefully arrayed
for alto saxophone and guitar
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A fountain
for piano
Purchase materialA general interrupter to ongoing activity
for voice
Purchase materialin nomines (1-4), surrogates, limbs, etc.
for clarinet and string trio
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Text by John Browne and John Dee; for six voices and four strings
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vray dieu d’amours / vray dieu d’amours
for horn (F)
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three reversed movements, to bring destroyed objects back to life
for piano
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for bass flute
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inscribed, in the center: “1520, Antorff”
for string quartet
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my pouert and goyng ouer
for baritone, bass clarinet, trumpet and trombone
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Rückenfigur
for tuba
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measurement as contrition: three canons
for orchestra
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Plan and section of the same reservoir
for soprano saxophone, piano and percussion
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mes pleurants
for piano
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