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Johnson is a published composer too and during lockdown she wrote a clarinet concerto, Tree of Life, inspired by a need to express something in music about the climate crisis. Its first performance with a handpicked team of like-minded musicians, the
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Johnson is one of the few clarinettists to have established a busy career as a solo performer which has taken her to major European, American and Asian venues as well as to Africa and Australasia. Her recording of sonatas by Brahms and Mendelssohn with John Lenehan was described as
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88:1984–present
84:Years active
25:Emma Johnson
18:
1488:1966 births
1450:Peter Moore
1318:Nicola Loud
1296:David Pyatt
1089:Adolphe Sax
1084:Iwan Müller
1054:Stephen Fox
1024:Amati-Denak
965:Basset horn
833:Ewan Hastie
750:Peter Moore
696:Nicola Loud
690:David Pyatt
568:wcom.org.uk
244:Discography
224:ASV Records
220:Jack Brymer
97:ASV Records
46:20 May 1966
1477:Categories
1285:Alan Brind
920:) clarinet
914:Soprano (B
821:Xhosa Cole
802:Jazz award
786:Fang Zhang
684:Alan Brind
466:References
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73:Instrument
42:1966-05-20
945:Saxonette
335:Encores 2
192:Orpington
67:Classical
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898:clarinet
895:♭
876:Clarinet
559:9/3/2016
342:Pastoral
77:Clarinet
1118:Related
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647:winners
503:3 March
314:Encores
164:Crusell
119:Website
1099:Selmer
1006:Oehler
1001:Müller
996:Mazzeo
981:Albert
421:Nimbus
407:Nimbus
370:Voyage
206:under
184:Barnet
178:Career
93:Labels
63:Genres
52:Barnet
1438:2010s
1372:2000s
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1251:1980s
986:Boehm
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444:2016
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1457:2018
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1358:1998
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1314:1990
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1281:1986
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1259:1982
505:2008
428:Somm
194:and
36:Born
378:UCJ
146:MBE
130:.uk
128:.co
124:www
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