Award-winning director, international performer and recording artist, Daniel Johnson has been the artistic director of the Texas Early Music Project since its inception in 1987. Johnson is a specialist in the music of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, the Sephardim, the Spanish 16th century, and Troubadours, as well as the early Baroque works of Monteverdi and Charpentier. His arrangements and performances of 18th-century Scottish ballads have received acclaim across the United States.

Johnson tours extensively in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, performing Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music both as a soloist and ensemble member in such groups as the New York Ensemble for Early Music, Sotto Voce (San Francisco), and Musa Iberica. He performs frequently at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, and with various Texas ensembles, including The Clearlight Waites, Texas Baroque Ensemble, and the New Texas Consort. He can be heard on various recordings for Koch International, Fone Records (Rome), and Amherst Festival Productions.

He has studied performance practice and technique with William Christie, Jordi Savall, Montserrat Figueras, the Hilliard Ensemble, the late Thomas Binkley, Andrea van Ramm, Andrew Parrott, Nigel Rogers, Philip Brett, Alejandro Planchart, Julianne Baird, Drew Minter, Paul Elliott, the late Paul Echols, and others. He has been a voice student of Marcy Lindheimer.

A member of the Higher Education Committee of Early Music America since 1996, Johnson was also the director of the UT Early Music Ensemble, one of the largest and most active in the U.S, from 1986 to 2003. In 1998, he was awarded Early Music America's "Thomas Binkley Award" for university ensemble directors. He is also the recipient of the 1997 Quattlebaum Award at the College of Charleston. Johnson teaches master classes in performance practice, and also serves on the faculty and staff (and is an assistant co-director) of the Amherst Early Music Festival.
 

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