Jenny Olivia Johnson

Jenny Olivia Johnson composes music that ranges from compressed 20-minute operas to epic pop songs to highly abstract religious masses. Her work is deeply influenced by minimalism, noise rock, 80's pop songs, and vernacular television, and she also draws a great deal of inspiration from her academic work on synaesthesia, childhood trauma, and acoustic memory.Jenny has collaborated with such artsists and ensembles as ICE, Alarm Will Sound, Corey Dargel, Ensemble Robot, Bang on a Can, the Arditti Quartet, orkest de ereprijs, the Young Peope's Chorus of New York City, organist Maxine Thevenot, flutist Janet McKay, Voices of Change, and New York City Opera, who performed two of her short operas ("The Endings" and "Leaving Santa Monica") at their VOX Contemporary Opera festivals in 2006 and 2007. She has also been honored with an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award (2006), two CAP grants from the American Music Center, and the 2004 Prix de Composition from the Conservatoire Americain de Fontainebleau, France. Jenny has also been a resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (2005, 2008) and the Banff Centre for the Arts (2008), and is currently a finalist for the 2008 Gaudeamus Prize in Amsterdam, where her chamber opera "Leaving Santa Monica" will be performed in September 2008 by the Asko | Schoenberg Ensemble.Currently a Ph.D. candidate in music composition and theory at New York University, Jenny also holds a Masters in composition from Manhattan School of Music and a BA in music from Barnard College at Columbia University. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.To find out more about Jenny, please visit her website at www.jennyoliviajohnson.net