Bradley Johnson

Described by David Russell as a Guitarist of ‘outstanding talent’ - Bradley Johnson is a Classical Guitarist based in London. Bradley has been drawn to modern music and has recently worked with on new solo repertoire with Gary Carpenter, David Gorton and Philip Cashian; this follows working closely on collaborations with Georg Friedrich Haas and Edward Cowie. His first exposure to this style came in the form of Tippett’s 'Sonata - ‘The Blue Guitar’, a performance of which secured First Prize in the Ivor Mairants Guitar Award - described in Classical Guitar Magazine as possessing ‘strongly formed musical ideas and the ability to deliver them with a natural sense of spontaneity’. This was followed by a recital at the International Guitar Research Conference presented by The Musicians' Company in 2016. Bradley began studying with Professor Michael Lewin at the Royal Academy of Music in 2017, from where he graduated in 2019 with Distinction, the DipRAM (the highest performance award conferred by the Academy) and First Prize in the Blyth Watson Guitar Concerto prize. After this, he was awarded a full scholarship for the Advanced Diploma course where he was selected to premiere and record new works for the Academy’s Bicentenary ‘200 Pieces’ project; he was awarded the Bache Fund Prize upon graduating in 2021. Since 2018, he has been a Yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians and an IGF Young Artist since 2021. He holds a First Class Honours Degree from the Royal Northern College of Music where he studied with Craig Ogden, he has received a Special Commendation from the Boise Foundation Scholarship Trust and his studies were supported twice by the Blyth Watson Charitable Trust Award and the Charlotte Fraser Award.