JOHANSON COMPOSITION
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Curriculum Vitae

Education

Western Washington University (2008-2010): M.M. in Composition

University of Minnesota Duluth (2001-2007): B.M. in Theory/Composition
                                            Minor in History

Performance Experience

Worship Music Experience:

Wells United Methodist Church (2010-2012): Sounds of Praise bell choir; adult vocal choir (bass); praise band (guitar)

Garden Street UMC (Bellingham, WA) (2008-2010): Chancel choir (bass); College praise band (accordion, guitar)

Hope UMC (Duluth, MN) (2003-2008): Adult vocal choir (bass); "4th Sunday" praise band (bass guitar, guitar)

Pit Orchestra Experience:

Duluth Playhouse: Bass guitar, 2005-2008
    Little Shop of Horrors
    Oliver
    Peter Pan
    Once Upon A Mattress
    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Rock Band Experience:

Bass Guitarist, pace-T (2001-2004)

Compositional Experience

Master's Thesis: 

        Castle Symphony for symphony orchestra (2010)

Premieres:

        Cantata on the Passion According to St. Mark (2012) (SATB, text from Mark, chap. 13-15): Apr. 1, 2012, at Wells UMC (Wells, MN)

        Cast All Your Anxiety On Him (2010) (SATB, text from I Peter, 5:7): Oct. 23, 2011, at Wells UMC (Wells, MN)
        
        Transfiguration (2011) (3 octave bell choir): March 6, 2011, at Wells UMC (Wells, MN)

        Selections from "Pocket Mass" (2009) (SATB; text from Latin Mass): March 14, 2010, and May 2, 2010, 
        at Garden Street UMC (Bellingham, WA)

        From The Attic Window I Behold the Gibbous Moon (2010) (Str. quartet): March, 2010; "Composers of Western" 
        Concert, PAC Concert Hall (Bellingham, WA)

        "Wind Quintet" (2009) (fl, ob, cl, bsn, hn): Nov. 2009

        "Brass Quintet," 1st mvt. (2009) (2 tpts, hn, tbn, tba): May, 2009

        Five Dialogues (2005) (2 pianos): Feb. 2006; UMD New Music Festival, performance by Duo Gestazi-Bezerra

        Nighthawks (2004) (vln, cl, pno): Apr. 2004; UMD New Music Festival, performance by Verdehr Trio

Commercial Releases:

        Making Things Up (2011)

Orchestration Experience:

        Tower: A Rapunzel Musical (2006-2012), Book & songs by Alicia Renee Storkamp