Emma Johnson is one of the few clarinettists to have established a career as a solo performer which has taken her to venues all over the world. Johnson has made 30 recordings to date. Her album English Fantasy has been streamed 5 million times on Spotify whilst Voyage and The Mozart Album both reached the top of the classical charts. 

A passionate advocate of the clarinet as a solo instrument, Emma’s eclectic programming has ranged from Mozart with Sir Yehudi Menuhin to Klezmer at the Jazz Café and Jazz with Dame Cleo Laine.

Emma Johnson’s compositions and arrangements have been published by Chesters and Faber Music. Her composition for clarinet and choir, Songs of Celebration, was recently performed in Dublin, London and Tokyo and her clarinet concerto, Tree of Life, has had many performances throughout the UK including at the Wigmore Hall and at many summer festivals.

In 2024 Emma formed the Emma Johnson Foundation to increase awareness of instrumental music in primary schools. Already the foundation has organised presentations for 1000’s of children throughout the UK. More information can be found at https://www.emmajohnsonmusicfoundation.org/

Emma grew up in London and her career was launched when at the age of 17 she won BBC Young Musicians in front of a TV audience of 12 million, followed by the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York. 

Johnson studied Music and English at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, where she was the first woman to be made an Honorary Fellow. In 2020 she was awarded the Cobbett Medal by the Musicians’ Company Guild in the City of London for distinguished services to chamber music. She was honoured by the Queen with an M.B.E. in 1996.

For more details please visit www.emmajohnson.co.uk Follow Emma on Twitter: @ClarinetEmmaJ

It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say that accomplished percussionist Paul Clarvis has performed with everyone you know and on everything you love. Clarvis was the late Leonard Bernstein's preferred London percussionist and helped Rick Smith with the drum arrangement for the London Olympics 2012 show-stopping opening, as well as having worked with high-profile musicians like Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder, Sir Paul McCartney, and Elton John.

His film slate is just as impressive, including memorable films like “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter,” “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “Twilight,” “Skyfall,” “Tron,” “Shrek,” and “The Hobbit.” Beyond his ongoing and in-demand work as a session musician, Clarvis is also an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and he is the drummer in the Strictly Come Dancing band.

With more than 80 albums to his credit, reflecting an enormous variety of genres and styles, John Lenehan ranks as one of the most versatile pianists on the classical scene today. This breadth of repertoire has led to his popularity on Spotify with over a quarter of a million monthly listeners worldwide. Praised by the New York Times for his “great flair and virtuosity” and the (London) Times – “a masterly recital”, John Lenehan has appeared in concerts throughout the World from Abu Dhabi to Zurich and from Aberdeen to Zimbabwe. As a soloist he has appeared with orchestras such as the London Symphony at the Barbican and the Royal Philharmonic in the Royal Albert Hall. John Lenehan has also collaborated with some of the leading    instrumentalists of our time and is recognised as an outstanding and versatile chamber musician. 

His many recordings include piano recitals and concertos as well as duo sonatas, chamber music and jazz. A four-disc survey of John Ireland’s piano music received great critical acclaim including a Gramophone award, and other solo recordings include three discs for Sony Classical of minimalist piano works and a disc of Erik Satie (for Classic FM). Most recently he has recorded albums with Tasmin Little and with the Rossetti Ensemble as well as concertos by Mozart (K.467) and Beethoven (Emperor) with the National Symphony Orchestra. 

John Lenehan also composes, with works published by Faber, Novello, and Schotts.   His Fantasy on Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker has recently been recorded by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra. He has written and arranged for a long list of soloists and orchestras including Emma Johnson, Nigel Kennedy, Tasmin Little, Nicola Benedetti, Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang, the BBC Concert Orchestra, RPO and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Last year (2021) his work was heard in the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris (Orchestre de Paris) and the last night of the proms (BBC SO). John Lenehan’s most recent composition is a piano concerto to be premiered in China in 2023. His interest in the combination of music and film has been long-standing. As director of “Sounds for Silents” he has written and arranged more than 20 film scores, which were performed throughout the UK in Festivals such as Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Brighton, and Harrogate as well as in Italy, Germany, Norway and Australia. He continues to present film and music programmes, reviving the art of the improvising pianist – the most recent including a tribute to the roaring twenties.

Debussy Cakewalk
Joplin The Entertainer
Simeon Grand Boubousse
MacDowell To a Wild Rose

Trad Native American Tune
Blake/Razaf Memories of You
Jelly Roll Morton Black Bottom Stomp

Feidman Let's be Happy
Artie Shaw Nightmare
Ellington Medley or Goodman Medley 

Interval

Bernstein Riffs
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
St James Infirmary Blues
Fats Waller Viper's Drag
Ravel Habanera
Abreu Tico Tico
Bechet Petite Fleur

Prima Sing Sing Sing
Snyder The Sheik of Araby