ABOUT

Johan is a national treasure
Nicola Clase, Swedish Ambassador

Johan is a composer of stirring melodic music for orchestra and smaller ensembles. He started out as a concert pianist, studying at the Royal Danish Academy as well as at Royal College of Music in London, eventually recording Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Since then he has taken a masters degree in composition for screen at the London College of Music and more recently a composition masters diploma at Malmo College of Music with professor Bent Sorensen.

In 2015 he was commissioned by the Financial Times and the Swedish Embassy in London to write a new Christmas Carol, and he has since composed ensembles such as Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, string ensemble Musica Vitae and The Swedish Wind Ensemble.
Future premieres include a concerto for viola and orchestra for solo violist Brett Deubner and a symphonic piece for Malmo Symphony Orchestra. Johan also enjoys writing chamber music, some of his recent work includes setting poetry by Gwendolyn Bennett to music, the piece ”Harlem Fantasy” was be recorded by renaissance group Ensemble Mare Balticum during the autumn 2023, when Johan also travelled to Germany to write for the esteemed tuba virtuoso Ricardo Carvalhoso.

Johan Hugosson displays a real artistic sensitivity to this repertoire – he has remarkable technique and a poetic understanding of these works, offering fresh, new insights that are stirring and engaging for the listener.
Nick Peros, Phoenix Classical

Fabulous! Wonderful! Glorious!
Gaby Roslin, BBC

Att samarbeta med Johan är inspirerande och glädjefyllt.Han är en briljant pianist och lyhörd ackompanjatör. Ett ovärderligt stöd vid gestaltning av poesi, naturlyrik och dramatiska berättelser i musikalisk inramning.
Sven-Bertil Taube