I'm a pianist , organist, choir conductor and composer. I have written choral music (sacred and secular), instrumental music, music for theatre, multimedia exhibitions, short films.


"nothing really matters . . ."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt9qbiwslqo

Finnish-American composer, PhD student at King’s College London. RCM and BU CFA graduate.  
2021 Ivors Composer Award nominee, Rostrum 2021 participant, 2020 Sinfonia Lahti Nursery Garden Initiative, LSO Panufnik Scheme participant 2018-2019, 2019 Tanglewood Music Center Composition Fellow.  Managed by Blom Music Management.  Published by Fennica Gehrman.

I am a music teacher at Oskarshams Folkhögskola, where I teach classical singing, composition, music theory and chamber music. 
I am also a singer with primarily art songs on my repertoire, a hobby composer and poet and a founding member of the Mönsterås Jazz and Chamber Music Society.
I studied composition at Ingesund College of Music and Baroque counterpoint at Uppsala University and mostly write vocal music for song and piano, and/or choir but eventually compose for other instruments and ensembles as well.
I have been called "a radiant talent in finding the essentials in different musical styles" (Arvika Nyheter, December 4, 2006) and regional news paper Barometern wrote that my music shows "good insight in choice of melody and harmonic part writing" (September 25, 2012).
My music has been performed in Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Sweden and USA.

Notable works are:

"Three nocturnal Songs Op. 11", song cycle of three songs for soprano and piano. Premiered by Cecilia Alrikson and Natalja Shakova in Oskarshamn, Sweden in 2018.

"Night songs Op. 6", song cycle of five songs for baritone and piano. Premiered by Anthony Schneider and Rosemary Barnes in Vienna, Austria in 2013.

"Ave Maria - String quartet in d minor Op. 12", string quartet in three movements. Published by Gusthold Music, USA in 2020.

"Av hjärtat, sjung! Op. 22", cantata in five movements for STB soloists, SATB and childrens choir, string quartet and piano. Comissioned for the opening concert of the four day festival "L'Esprit - upplev 1700-talet" (L'Esprit - Experience the 18th century) in 2020.

"Joie de vivre - Piano sonata No. 2" Op. 23, sonata in four movements for solo piano. Composed in 2020.

"Jaktsonaten - Violin sonata No. 1 Op. 13", sonata in four movements for violin and piano. Composed in 2016.
 
I have been published by:

Gusthold Music Publisher (www.gustholdmusic.com) 
- String quartet in D minor "Ave Maria Op. 12" (May 2020)

Flauto d'Amore Editions
(www.flautodamoreproject.com)
- Danza, for Flauto d'Amore or C-flute (June 2020)

Psalmportalen (www.psalmportalen.se)
- Three congregational hymns (Herre Gud, vi lovar dig, När det känns som att allt ljus försvinner and Ett litet barn, Marias son) (Summer 2017)

I hope you will find something here to listen to that you will enjoy!

Photography for my profile image: Anna Broette

我没有学过任何音乐的乐器。但是我自己作了一个歌曲，歌名是 “请你不要告诉我“。希望大家喜欢。
“请你不要告诉我“ 的歌词

不要再说  我不要再听
请你不要告诉我  你爱的人不是我
请你不要告诉我  你不爱我

知不知道  我永远爱你
我会永远爱着你  我会永远想着你
我会对你说  我真的真的永远爱你  爱着你

请你不要说  你不爱我
我知道  你可能永远都不会爱着我
不爱我  不爱我  永远不爱我

请你不要告诉我
请你不要告诉我  
请你不要告诉我  
你说你永远都不会爱我
请你不要告诉我  
请你不要告诉我  
请你不要告诉我  
你说你不爱我

请你不要告诉我
请你不要告诉我  
请你不要告诉我  
你说你永远都不会爱我
请你不要告诉我  
请你不要告诉我  
请你不要告诉我  
你爱的不是我

Hi, I'm Al Johnston,

I'm a composer/trombonist. I'm building a body of work and would like to share it with the fine musicians and connoisseurs of classical music here. The refined taste of participants here is what I need as a sounding board to help me improve my technique.

I have completed a symphonic suite, 3 concerti, 4 grand piano sonatas (of a projected 6), 2 piano trios, and several sonatas for solo instrument. You can find these on Soundcloud, on my Google+ channel, or on my Youtube channel, Novaclassica. Perhaps take a moment to express what you feel about my work.

Maybe you think that mock-ups suck. I quite agree, but I find them useful (to a point) to convey immediately the sense of my music. In the mean time, I strive to improve how mine sound realizing it is just a mock-up and doesn't replace live performance (nor should it).

Maybe you think the music isn't original enough. Just know that I strive to explore trails blazed by those before, yet do so in order to uncover the treasures of my own soul. Not convinced? Listen to the BBC documentary by Howard Goodall "Twentieth Century Greats: The Beatles" (search for it on Youtube).

Maybe you don't like the concerto form, thinking that it seems pretty dated. However, in this new century electronically produced media (i.e cinema) is battling to draw out an audience unwilling to leave their homes just to sit somewhere else and watch a screen. But live performance still wows people and, in my opinion, as film theaters continue to lose customers live concerts have become set to thrive once more. It remains a fact that people are just attracted and drawn out to watch a master musician out front on stage playing their heart out, while being backed-up and supported by surrounding players.

So I'm optimistic about the future of concert music. That's why I'm writing it. Whatever you want to comment, please do.

Thanks,

Al
Novaclassica

I am a Wisconsin-based composer, writer, and musician.

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