Welcome to American concert pianist Christopher Johnson's official website.  Christopher currently performs over 30 concerts each year as critics extol his brilliant performances and poetic interpretations.

"To hear Christopher Johnson perform [Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1], on the cusp of a great career, is to believe.  Possessing a Van Cliburn intensity, he deserves to have the career of a true musical star."

              --David Palladino, WESTFIELD LEADER      

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"an utterly convincing and technically astounding performance of Prokofiev Seventh Sonata.  I have rarely heard any pianist (except perhaps Toradze's phenomenal recording) play this unforgiving piece with the clarity and coherence with which Mr. Johnson explicated its knottiest problems."

                  -- Patrick Meanor, LISTENER MAGAZINE

"Johnson has everything to make a big career: musicality, technique to squander, a touch capable of the merest whisper or a thunderous sound and stage presence. 

With these indisputable gifts, he should shortly be following in the footsteps of Murray Perahia or Krystian Zimerman."

    -- Robert H. Newall, THE ELLSWORTH AMERICAN (Maine)

"Johnson gave this two-fisted Romantic blockbuster (Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2) a sharply etched, strongly attacked performance that brought out its surge and passion.  And after the minor key melancholy of the first two movements, Johnson unleashed the riotous coloration and surging sense of victory over adversity in the Finale with blazing technique and an exciting rhythmic fillip at the end."

                                      -- Herman Trotter, BUFFALO NEWS

Notes

Join Christopher, July 9, 8:15PM, at the Bar Harbor Music Festival, as he pays tribute to Samuel Barber on the 100th Anniversary of his birth.

August 7, 7:30PM, Christopher performs “From Beethoven to Barber”at the Sembrich Opera Museum.