Martin Johnson's albums discography with cataloged releases, editions, and credits
Cello player from Ireland
Martin Johnson studied cello at the Royal College of Music, London. In 2000, he joined the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (now National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland) and has been its section leader for two decades. In 2006 he was invited to become a member of the World Philharmonic Orchestra, and is also a regular guest principal with the major orchestras in Ireland and the UK. Johnson has appeared as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland on more than 20 occasions, with live solo broadcasts including concertos by Frank Corcoran (recorded for RTÉ lyric fm) and Strauss’s tone poem Don Quixote, Op. 35 with Pascal Rophé at Ireland’s National Concert Hall, Dublin. Johnson is a University College Dublin Creative Fellow, a Countess of Munster scholar, an IT President’s Prize Winner and has been supported by The Loan Fund for Musical Instruments as well as Music Network’s Music Capital Scheme in Ireland. He plays a cello by Thomas Kennedy of London (c. 1810) and a bow by legendary archetier Eugène Sartory made for the 1908 Expo.