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Email: Julian Johnson

Born in 1963, educated at Reading School, the Royal College of Music, the University of Cambridge, Dartington College of Arts and the University of Sussex. Lecturer in Music at the University of Sussex 1992-2001, and Reader in the Faculty of Music and Fellow in Music at St Anne’s College, Oxford, 2001–7. Trained originally as a horn player, then as a composer. He joined the Music Department of Royal Holloway as Professor of Music in September 2007.
He has published widely on Viennese modernism (Mahler, Webern, Berg and Schoenberg) but his research interests extend across the broad period of musical modernity from the late 18th-century to the present.  His historical studies of music are always shaped by questions of musical meaning, evident in his engagement with the philosophy of music (from Kant and Hegel to T W Adorno), ideas of nature and landscape in music, and the relation of music to the other arts (literature and painting).
He was for many years an active composer whose music has been professionally performed in Europe, the USA and Japan. His Three Pieces for Orchestra (1992) was performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, as was his choral work, The Kingfisher (1993), performed by the BBC Singers.
He is a regular speaker at international academic conferences – most recently speaking in London, Dublin, Vienna, Graz, Frankfurt, Toronto, Seattle and New York – but has also given frequent public talks to a wider audience for the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne Opera, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, and on BBC Radio 3. In 2009 he was Series Consultant to the Philharmonia Orchestra for City of Dreams: Vienna 1900-35. In 2005 he was awarded the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association for ‘outstanding contributions to musicology’.