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Emma Johnson is one of the few clarinettists to have established an international career as a soloist. Emma has performed across Europe, the USA and the Far East, as well as in Africa and Australia in venues such as the Kennedy Center, the Concertgebouw, the Louvre and the Barbican. In Britain she has achieved particular popularity - her two recent discs on the Universal label, "Voyage" and "The Mozart Album", spent many weeks at the top of the Classical Charts.

Emma grew up in London and began to study the clarinet at the age of nine. In 1984 she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition and was a medal winner in the Eurovision Young Musician televised throughout Europe. Later she was to be a winner of the Young Concert Artist Auditions in New York. These competitions launched Emma's musical career whilst she was still at school, but she decided to study Music and English at Cambridge University before embarking full-time on musical life. read more...

Praised by the New York Times (“great flair and virtuosity”) and the London Times (“a masterly recital”), John Lenehan’s performances and recordings have been acclaimed throughout the world.

As a soloist he has regularly appeared with leading British Orchestras and his innovative recital programmes often include film projection and jazz repertoire. In a performing career spanning more than 25 years John Lenehan has also collaborated with many of today’s leading instrumentalists and is recognised as one of the leading accompanists and chamber musicians of today.

During the past few years he has appeared in major concert halls in Amsterdam, Vienna, Salzburg, New York, Washington, Toronto, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo.