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Biography
COMPOSER BARNEY B. JOHNSON
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Barney B. Johnson. Composing since 2003, with works for orchestra, wind ensemble, vocal, chamber music, and solo music. Music available on CD with Urlicht Audiovisuel & downloadable via SoundCloud. Performances at the National Opera Center, Symphony Space, Tenri Cultural Institute, and La Fondation des Etats-Unis. Collaborations & workshops with the New York Piano Quartet, Colorado Quartet, & Iktus Percussion. Composition recitals in Paris, New York, Boston, & Santa Barbara. Awarded scholarships & felllowships at the University of California, Santa Barbara, The Seal Bay Music Festival, & The European-American Musical Alliance.
​Barney studied tuba & composition at the Walnut Hill Conservatory (2007) and completed his Bachelors in Music Composition at the State University of New York at Purchase College (2011). He has a Masters in Music Composition from The University of California, Santa Barbara (2014). He moved to Paris, France in 2017 to study harmony, counterpoint, & orchestration, and gained a Diplôme Supérieur in Orhcestration at L'Ecole Normale de Musique (2021). He was one of the last students of Narcis Bonet, one of the great disciples of Nadia Boulanger.
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Barney has held music teaching positions at The State University of New York, New Paltz, Union County College, The Chamber Music Center of New York, The Jewish Commuity Center of Northern New Jersey, and the Lennen Bilingual School in Paris. He currently resides in Central New Jersey, where he is composing his opera-ballet Salammbô, and seeking to program his first symphony, helpisontheway for orchestra.
Press Kit
Downloadable resume, biography, & headshot are currently available upon request. Please send Barney an email through the contact form. Materials will be added to this page after September 30th.
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