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Guy Johnston

Guy Johnston

Born: 1981, Harpenden, England

Nationality: British

Artist's website: https://www.guy-johnston.com/

British cellist Guy Johnston was born into a musical family in Harpenden in 1981, and was educated at the choir school of King’s College Cambridge, Chetham’s School of Music and the Eastman School in New York. In 2000 he won BBC Young Musician of the Year (playing Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto), and his international career took off immediately afterwards; his discography includes Moeran’s Cello Concerto with JoAnn Falletta and the Ulster Orchestra on Naxos, Holst’s Invocation with Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Philharmonic on Chandos, Karl Jenkins’s The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, and Milo (a recital of Britten, Bridge and Turnage with the pianist Kathryn Stott, which takes its title from Turnage’s composition for his baby son’s christening, inspired and premiered by Johnston).

Johnston plays a 1714 Tecchler cello (the subject of his album Tecchler’s Cello: From Cambridge to Rome, released on King’s College’s own label in 2017) and is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music.

Further Reading: Guy Johnston

Interview, Guy Johnston & Jonathan Clinch on the Howells Cello Concerto

David talks to cellist Guy Johnston and musicologist Jonathan Clinch about Howells's Cello Concerto - recently reconstructed by Clinch, recorded by Johnston and released on the King's College label.

Interview, Guy Johnston and Tom Poster on Themes and Variations

Cello and piano duo Guy Johnston and Tom Poster talk to David about their new album celebrating twenty years of music-making together.

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