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Roger Johnson

Classical

Roger Johnson (b. 1941, San Mateo, Calif.) is a man of many musical parts. He is active as composer not only of serious concert music but electronic music and popular songs; performer on the French horn, piano and as conductor; music editor and copyist, and as teacher at the university level. He received his B.A. at Washington University, where he studied with John Verrall and George McKay; his M.Mus. at Yale, where his teachers included Mel Powell, and is completing his doctoral studies at Columbia under Chou Wen-chung and Otto Luening. He began composition early, and all his early works were performed later and retired. During his study at Yale, he became absorbed in the 12-tone technique which became more lyrical in recent years. He is currently (1972) teaching at Ramapo College of New Jersey.