Liz Johnson is a composer, teacher and music workshop leader. Formerly based in Birmingham, Liz has recently moved to the beautiful Malvern Hills, and has taught Composition at Birmingham Conservatoire BCU since 1999. 
Her richly diverse music ranges from luscious choral and vocal works to delicately layered and complex chamber music, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, with performances by ensembles and performers including the Brodsky Quartet, Roderick Williams, The Opera Group, Ixion, Noszferatu, the Fitzwilliam Quartet, Ensemble Bash, Kintamarni, the Goldberg Ensemble, Magenta, the Ionian Singers, Juice, Alonso Mendoza, , Collegium Vocale and BCMG. Images of Trees - String Quartet No 1 won the BCMS Composition Competition, leading to performances all over the UK as well as in Russia and the USA, and later the commission for String Quartet No.3 Intricate Web. Moon Incantations for children's choir reached the final of the British Composer Awards in 2003; other commissions include Draco for solo percussion, Night-Music for violin and piano duo and Grzimek's Fly for solo harp. Recent projects : Ben Hartley Reflections for solo cello and choir with Tamsy Kaner - cello, Sun-Dances for choir and piano and Is This It? a mini opera written in collaboration with writer Rosalind Haslett, performed in the foyer of the Linbury Studio, Covent Garden, with singers Lore Lixenberg and James Gower.
Current projects: Inflorescence a new commission for soprano saxophone and piano for Kyle Horch and Pavel Timofejevsky
Is This It? A new opera for the Opera Group with soprano Lore Lixenberg, premiere July 14th 7.30pm Linbury Studio, Covent Garden.
CD releases: Flotilla saxophone consort, O Vos available from www.bigshedmusic.co.uk
Songs and Icons Lekan Babalola, Ide Osun available from http://records.mrbongo.com/releases/LekanBabalola/MRBCD044/
Liz also works extensively in the community, having worked as a full-time teacher for 11 years before going freelance. She leads inclusive creative music workshops both with adults (creative workshops and teacher training) and in mainstream and special schools, as well as delivering composition and creative music projects for organisations including Welsh National Opera, BCMG Education, Open University, Presteigne Festival, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Sound Futures and the National Association for Gifted and Talented Youth.