One of the few clarinettists to have established a busy international career as a soloist, Emma Johnson has performed across Europe, the USA and the Far East, as well as in Africa and Australia. In Britain she has achieved great popularity; her two recent discs for Universal Classics &; Jazz, Voyage and The Mozart Album spent many weeks in the UK Classical CD Charts.

Emma began to study the clarinet at the age of nine. In 1984 she won the BBC Television Young Musician of the Year Competition and was a medal winner in the European Young Musician competition televised throughout Europe. In 1991 she was a winner of the Young Concert Artist Auditions in New York. She studied Music and English at

Cambridge University and was recently the first woman to be awarded an honorary fellowship at Pembroke College. Emma has given masterclasses all over the world and was a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music. She was awarded an MBE in the Queenís Birthday Honours list in 1996.

Emma Johnson has appeared as soloist with many leading orchestras including the London Symphony, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, Hallé, Tokyo Philharmonic, Salzburg Camerata and Netherlands Philharmonic in repertoire that includes over forty different concertos.