Forthcoming Performances:

27 November 2010 7.30pm St Peter and St Paul's Parish Church, Ermington, Devon Ben Hartley Reflections - Liz Johnson for cello solo and choir, performed by Elaine Ackers (cello) and the Erme Singers (directed by Peter Thurley), supported by Peninsular Arts, Plymouth University.

5 December 2010 3pm Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham 40:40 Fantasia for string quartet - Liz Johnson performed by the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, (also featuring Haydn Op. 33/3 'The Bird', Mozart K458 'The Hunt' and Shostakovich Quartet No. 8).
 
Recent performances:
June 23rd 2010 1pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire Cabbage Dreams and Sleep Close - Liz Johnson, for voice and piano performed by Suzannah Purkis (voice) and Ronald Woodley (piano), Leaf-Fall-Dance - Liz Johnson, for piano solo performed by Marie-Louise Taylor
 
June 14th 2010 1pm St Peter's Church, Notting Hill O Vos - Liz Johnson, for 3 alto sax, performed by Flotilla

May 22nd 2010 Artrix Leaf-Fall-Dance - Liz Johnson, for solo piano performed by Marie-Louise Taylor (piano)

May 6th 2010 1.05pm Amaryllis Fleming Hall, RCM Orisha Osun -Liz Johnson, for soprano sax solo, sax sextet and percussion performed by the RCM saxophone ensemble directed by Kyle Horch

November 24th 2009 1.15pm Birmingham Conservatoire James Geer (tenor) and Ronald Woodley (piano) will be premiering Cabbage Dreams - Liz Johnson

Summer 2009 

Liz Johnson's Turn of the Moon for saxophone quartet featured in Rome, Italy

Donne In Musica Works for Saxophone Quartet

The 10 concerts planned with the SAXODIA QUARTET of the Antonia Scontrino Conservatory, Trapani, will take place in Rome between the 8th and 14th June. The works, chosen by international panel, will be performed in an "outreach" programme for the genral public of all ages and is the first of its kind in Italy - we are taking the contemporary works to schools, social centres, a library, a park and a centre for political refugees in the same quarter of Rome, Municipio XVIII, Roma Aurelia

 

Spring 2009 Flotilla CD only £10

Release of Flotilla CD for saxophone consort, featuring Liz Johnson's O Vos for 3 alto saxophones, from Hildegard Reflections.
Visit www.flotilla.org.uk for more information and
order your CD from www.bigshedmusic.co.uk
 
Flotilla's programmes include works by major international and British composers including Elliott Carter, Jonathan Dove, Edward McGuire, and William Sweeney. Committed to developing a distinctive repertoire, the group has presented the first performances and recordings of several works, including Paul Evernden's Three Songs for Sajmište and Liz Johnson's Hildegard Reflections.
 

Earlier in the year... 

January 17th 2009 When Words Sing BCMG

CBSO Centre, Birmingham Conductor: Peter Wiegold

Liz Johnson's Elephant Woman for solo voice, performed by Eileen Hulse with animations by Jonathan Lee
 

January 17th 2009, Plymouth Chamber Music Trust, Sherwell Centre, and 26th Jan: Birmingham Conservatoire, Frontiers series featuring Liz Johnson's Hildegard Reflections: 3 pieces for saxophone ensemble

January 18th: Red Hot Celli Peppers, Adrian Boult Hall, Birminghamfeaturing Liz Johnson's Celli Source for 8 cellos 

Liz Johnson in conversation with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies about her String Quartet No 3 Intricate Web performed by the Brodsky Quartet, October 5th 2008 Kings Place, London

 

 

 

 

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