Evan Johnson - Whewell Composer Lecture 22/11/22 at 11am

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Date: Tuesday 15 November 2022

man's face with beard and moustache, glasses, and curly dark hair. Coming up on Tuesday November 22nd at 11am, Evan Johnson delivers the Whewell Lecture 2022. The lecture is titled ‘L’art de toucher’, and discusses Evan's recent keyboard music. The venue is the School of Music (Lecture Theatre 3), and will also be live-streamed online [https://youtu.be/rOw-Epk-QF4].

Johnson is an internationally renowned composer whose work focuses on extremes of density, sparsity, quietude, fragility, and degrees of hapticity. His work has been performed at, among others, the Darmstadt Summer Courses, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Wittener Tag für neue Kammermusik, and Milano Musica. He is also a writer on contemporary music, published in Contemporary Music Review, Tempo, Music Theory Spectrum etc.

cd cover. Evan Johnson, "Lists, little stars", Ben Smith. Hazy yellow abstract texture This lecture follows on from a performance of a new work for piano and soprano by Ben Smith and Patricia Auchterlonie on Monday Nov. 21st as part of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.