Graeme Steele Johnson
Winner of the Hellam Young Artists' Competition, the Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition and the Center for Musical Excellence's inaugural Lee Memorial Scholarship, Graeme Steele Johnson has established a multifaceted career as a clarinetist, writer and arranger. Johnson's diverse artistic endeavors range from his TEDx talk comparing Mozart and Seinfeld, to his music- and poetry-weaving show IMPRESSION--based on his octet arrangement of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun--to his performances of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in its original form on a rare elongated clarinet that he commissioned. He has appeared recently in recital at The Kennedy Center and Chicago's Dame Myra Hess series, and as a chamber musician at Chamber Music Northwest, Phoenix Chamber Music Festival and the Ravinia Festival. As a concerto soloist, he has performed with the Vienna International Orchestra, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Caroga Lake and Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestras, and the CME Chamber Orchestra, led by Metropolitan Opera concertmaster Benjamin Bowman. Upcoming engagements include collaborations with the Miró Quartet, David Shifrin and Valerie Coleman, as well as performances at the Yellow Barn festival, Phoenix Chamber Music Festival and Kallos Chamber Music Series.
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