David Wilson-Johnson

Concert /Recital Singer performing worldwide since 1976

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About

spent the last 50 years working with the greatest conductors and orchestras in concerts worldwide. longstanding musical relationships with Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestres de Radio France, Frans Bruggen and the Orchestra of the 18th Century, Robert King and The King's Consort, Simon Rattle and the orchestras of Liverpool, Birmingham, Berlin and London, Andre Previn with the LSO and orchestras of Pittsburgh, Oslo and NHK Tokyo and Charles Dutoit with orchestras in Montreal, Philadelphia, Boston, Amsterdam, London, Munich, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Beijing and Tokyo .. ...over fifty performances at the BBC Proms (three Last Nights) and numerous performances with the BBCSO, BBCPO, RSNO, SCO, RPO, LPO, Philharmonia. recent trips to perform with the orchestras of Cleveland, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, Houston, San Diego. 35 years of opera starting with debut at ROH Covent Garden in Henze's 'We Come to the River"​ (1977) major roles included Don Alfonso (ROH), Albeniz's Merlin (Madrid), The Nose (Netherlands Opera) and Messiaen's St Francois d'Assise (BBCTV, Amsterdam, Brussels, New York, Edinburgh Festival) Happiest recordings and performances with Sir John Pritchard, Kenneth Montgomery, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Frans Bruggen, Evgeny Svetlanov, Carlo Maria Giulini, David Atherton, Charles Dutoit and David Owen Norris. since student days have worked regularly with pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris and recorded countless discs on a variety of period pianos......

Experience

  • Solo Baritone in Concerts with Orchestra rep. Monteverdi to Messiaen. at freelance baritone
    1973 - Present · 53 yrs 6 mos

    solo baritone singing with orchestras worldwide Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis/St Paul, Seattle, San Francisco, Montreal, Sydney, Perth, London Philharmonic, London Symphony , Royal Philharmonic, BBCSO, Berlin Philharmoniker, Bayerische Rundfunk, BBCSO, BBCPO, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Madrid ORTV and Spanish National Orchestra, Orchestra of the 18th Century, The King's Consort, Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London Sinfonietta, Fires of London, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Royal Concertgebouw Orkest, Netherlands Philharmonic, Dutch Radio Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, Orchestres de Radio France.

  • Professor of Singing at Conservatorium van Amsterdam
    2004 - Feb 2010 · 6 yrs 2 mos

    Director Ferrandou Summer Singing School. Private teaching practice in Amsterdam. www.davidwilsonjohnson.com

  • regular guest at De Nederlandse opera
    1994 - 2006 · 12 yrs

    Punch and Judy, (Birtwistle) Die Gluckliche Hand, Von Heute auf Morgen, (Schonberg) Die Meistersinger,(Wagner) Les Troyens,(Berlioz), Peter Grimes,(Britten) The Nose (Shostakovitch).

  • guest artist at Royal Opera House
    1977 - 1998 · 21 yrs

    We Come to the River (Henze), L'Enfant et les Sortilleges (Ravel), Le Rossignol, Les Noces (Stravinsky), Werther (Massenet), Die Zauberflote, Cosi fan Tutte (Mozart), Turandot (Puccini), Billy Budd, Peter Grimes, (Britten) Arianna (Goehr), Palestrina (Pfitzner)....