Liz Johnson

Prize-winning composer Liz Johnson writes a wide range of concert music, specialising in solo, chamber, vocal and choral music, occasionally incorporating electronics and elements of improvisation and also works with dance and theatre. She was recently awarded a PhD (Composition) from the Conservatoire with the main work Sky-burial for voice and string quartet.

Liz works extensively in the community delivering creative music projects with schools, hospitals, care homes and community groups. This includes the immensely popular BCMG Music Maze series which has been running since 2003. Other community work ranges from writing songs with nursery children to devising challenging composition and improvisation projects with talented and gifted young musicians all around the West Midlands.