... Highlights of Joseph Johnson’s current season include six performances of Brahms’s Double Concerto with violinist Frank Almond and Edo de Waart conducting the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra...
... Prior to his Milwaukee appointment, Joseph Johnson was a member of The Minnesota Orchestra cello section for eleven years...
... Mr. Johnson has a special relationship with the culture and people of Russia, dating to his 1997 tour as soloist with the American Russian Youth Orchestra, during which he played Barber’s Cello Concerto in New York City’s Carnegie Hall, St. Petersburg’s Marinsky Theatre and Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall. He returned to Russia frequently, leading master classes at the Tchaikovsky School of Music and performing in recital...
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Upcoming performance
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, McGegan / Johnson / Saint-Saëns, Beethoven
Roy Thomson Hall
Toronto, Ontario
Wednesday, 24 November 2010 - 6:30 PM
Presenter: Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Ensemble: Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Nicholas McGegan
Artist: Joseph Johnson (Cello)
Program:
Saint-Saëns: Concerto for Cello no 1 in A minor, Op. 33
Beethoven: Symphony no 8 in F major, Op. 93
