Graeme Steele Johnson

Praised as “technically and interpretively impeccable and passionately communicative” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), Graeme Steele Johnson is an artist of uncommon imagination and versatility. The clarinetist, curator and “musical detective” (New York Classical Review) garnered international attention for his rediscovery, reconstruction, and recording of a 125-year-old Octet by Charles Martin Loeffler, profiled in a full-page spread by The Washington Post and named one of The New York Times’ Best Classical Music Albums of 2024. Johnson led the work’s first present-day performances at the Library of Congress, Morgan Library, Harvard Musical Association, Emerald City Music, Chamber Music Northwest, and more. Since 2022 Johnson has served as clarinetist of the award-winning quintet WindSync. He has appeared as soloist with the San Diego Symphony, Vienna International Orchestra, and Springfield Symphony Orchestra, and collaborated with the Miró, Balourdet, Aeolus, and Callisto Quartets, as well as the Copland House, Twelfth Night, and New York New Music Ensembles. He has also appeared as a TEDx speaker, authored chamber arrangements heard around the world, and serves as Artistic Director of the Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival in Houston.