Liz Johnson is a composer, teacher and music workshop leader. Based in the beautiful Malvern Hills, she has taught composition at Birmingham Conservatoire BCU since 1999.
Liz Johnson is a composer, teacher and music workshop leader. Based in the beautiful Malvern Hills, she has taught composition at Birmingham Conservatoire BCU since 1999.
Liz Johnson's richly diverse music ranges from luscious choral and vocal works to delicately layered and complex chamber music, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, with performances by ensembles and performers including the Brodsky Quartet, Roderick Williams, Ex Cathedra, The Opera Group, Ixion, Noszferatu, the Fitzwilliam Quartet, Ensemble Bash, the Goldberg Ensemble, the Ionian Singers, Juice, Dr K Sextet and BCMG. String Quartet No.3 Intricate Web was selected by Sir Peter Maxwell Davis for the opening of Kings Place, London. Moon Incantations for children's choir reached the final of the British Composer Awards. Is This It? a mini opera was performed at Covent Garden by the Opera Group and other commissions include Tide purl for string quartet, Inflorescence for soprano saxophone and piano, and Diptera for solo harp.
Works with dance include Two Pages with choreographer Eva Perdiki, Under Your Breath with choreographer Sela Kiek.
Collaboration February 2017
Liz will be composing a new piece of music to go alongside Dora's Artwork for this collaboration. For the first session she watched and listened to Dora paint, recording the sounds she makes with her brushes and canvas. During this she also writes down notes in her book to inspire her when composing her music. Liz then went upstairs in Dora's house to use her piano and continue to composer her piece of music. Liz worked for about 30 minutes on her composition stopping regularly to write her notes down and repeating small parts of the written ideas she had when seeing and listening to Dora paint.
Although she didn't write a complete piece of music she had a good start on it today, and will be working on it at home to create a short piece to go with Dora's fine Art and y documentary on the day of the exhibition , which we hope to be in June this year.
Although she didn't write a complete piece of music she had a good start on it today, and will be working on it at home to create a short piece to go with Dora's fine Art and y documentary on the day of the exhibition , which we hope to be in June this year.
