CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON
Christopher Johnson is Director, Music (USA), at Oxford University Press and conductor of the Oxford University Press Choir in New York. He was choral director at St Paul’s Church, Brooklyn, where he led premières of works by Libby Larsen and Rebecca Clarke. An expert on Clarke, Mr. Johnson has edited many of her compositions for publication and has given lectures and lecture/recitals on her life and works at universities and conservatories throughout the United States and in England. In the theatre, he has acted in classic and contemporary plays and musicals and has directed music for "Marat/Sade," "The Tempest," "Salad Days," and "Long Day’s Journey Into Night." Mr. Johnson studied acting at Boston University’s School of Fine and Applied Arts, music at the Manhattan School of Music, and musicology in the City University of New York’s doctoral program.