Bio

David Johnson is a Licentiate

of the Royal College of Music

in London. He is currently

professor of horn at the

Conservatorio della Svizzera

Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland

and has held principal horn

positions in the Boston

Opera Orchestra,

Niedersaechsisches

Staatsorchester Hannover,

Philharmonia Hungarica, Radio Symphony Orchestra of Basel and the Bern Symphony. Before moving to the Conservatorio in Lugano, Mr. Johnson taught at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Berne and Winterthur-Zurich. As a solist, he won the Geneva International Horn Competition and the Swiss Prize in 1985 and with the American Horn Quartet, which he founded in 1982, he has won competitions in Hungary (1989), Belgium (1991) and Japan (1992) in addition to recording 8 CDs to date. Mr. Johnson has served as a judge for many prestigious horn competitions, regularly conducts master classes around the world and hosts two summer horn workshops.