Richard Johnson (pianist)
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Richard D. Johnson | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | Richard Doron Johnson August 20th 1975 |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instruments | Piano, clarinet |
| Years active | 1995 to present |
| Website | rjjazz |
Richard Doron Johnson is an American composer, jazz pianist, and music professor. He is a Jazz professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. Johnson often plays at music venues and jazz festivals such as the Detroit International Jazz Festival, Marciac France jazz festival, Chicago Jazz Festival and Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Johnson was introduced to music at an early age, specifically the piano, by his father, a gospel pianist from Baltimore. Immediately after being born in Pittsburgh, Richard’s family moved to Canfield, Ohio where they lived until 1984. After living here they moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where he played trumpet in middle school and valve trombone in high school until 10th grade. In 1991, Due to Richard’s fathers job they were transferred again to Boxford, Massachusetts where he graduated from Masconomet High School in Topsfield.[1]
Richard Johnson’s alma maters are the Berklee College of Music, where he graduated in a mere two years, and the Boston Conservatory of Music, where he received a music scholarship and his Master’s Degree in Jazz Pedagogy.[2]