Kynan Johns, conductor

"Incisive... first rate... brilliant" - New York TImes
"His direction breathes theater... attentive to the singer, lively, aerial and sensual" - Le Monde de la Musique

A protégé of Maestro Lorin Maazel, Kynan Johns has conducted over 100 orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, and Vienna Chamber Orchestra. He has worked at Covent Garden, conducted at La Scala, and worked with Maazel and Mehta for four seasons at the Palau de les Arts (Opera House) in Spain. In addition to complete Beethoven, Brahms, Strauss and Mahler cycles his opera credits include Don Giovanni, Madame Butterfly, Luisa Miller, Don Carlos, Turn of the Screw, La Boheme, Traviata, Faust, Adés's Powder Her Face & Offenbach's Perichole.

Resume • Repertorie • Recordings

List of works conducted and in repertoire as of January 2017


OPERA/ THEATRE

Adams      

Ades      

Beethoven     

Bernstein

Bizet      

Britten        

Chin      

Delibes

Donizetti  

Floyd

Gounod  

Lehár        

Massenet

Maazel

Mozart

Offenbach

Poulenc

Puccini

Rossini

Ravel

Rodgers

Strauss

Sondheim

Turnage

Verdi

Wagner

Weill

Death of Klinghoffer, Nixon in China

Powder her Face

Fidelio

Mass, West Side Story, Candide

Carmen, Pearl Fishers

Peter Grimes, Turn of the Screw, Billy Budd, Rape of Lucretia, Beggar's Opera

Alice in Wonderland

Lakmé

Il Campanello

Susannah

Romeo and Juliet, Faust

The Merry Widow

Manon, Cendrillon

1984

Cosi fan Tutte, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte

Les Conte d'Hoffman, La Perichole

Dialogues of the Carmelites

Tosca, Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Turandot, Il Trittico

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

L'Enfant et les Sortileges

Sound of Music and many more

Die Fledermaus, Die Ziguenerbaron

Merrily we Roll Along, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd

Anna Nicole

La Traviata, Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra, Don Carlos, Luisa Miller, Aida, Macbeth

Parsifal, Lohengrin, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämerung

Mahagonny, Street Scene, Threepenny Opera, Seven Deadly Sins


ORCHESTRAL

Adams
 

Adés

Albinoni

Andriessen

Arriaga

Bach

Barber
 

Bartók
 

Beethoven


Berio

Berlioz

Bernstein

Bizet

Borodin

Boulez

Brahms

Britten

Bruckner

Copland

Corigliano

Debussy

Delibes

Dench

Delius

Dohnanyi

Dorman

Dukas

Dvořák

Elgar

Fauré

Franck

Gerhard

Gershwin

Glass

Glinka

Górecki

Gounod

Grainger

Grieg

Händel

Harbison

Haydn

Hindemith

Holst

Hovhannes

Ibert

Ives

Janáček

Kernis

Khachaturian

Koehne

Kondo

Ligeti

Liszt

Lutosławski

Mahler

Meale

Mendelssohn

Menotti

Milhaud

Moran

Mozart

 

Mussorgsky

Nielsen

Offenbach

Pachelbel

Pärt

Poulenc

Prokofiev

Puccini

Rachmaninov

Ravel


Reich

Respighi

R-Korsakov

Rossini
 

Saint-Saëns

Sarcich

Satie

Schnittke

Schwantner

Schoenberg

Schubert

Schumann

Sculthorpe

Shostakovich

Sibelius

Smetana

Strauss
 

Strauss, R.

 

Stravinsky

 

Takemitsu

Suppé

Tchaikovsky
 

Torke

Tower

Varèse

V-Williams

Verdi

Vivaldi

Voříšek

Wagner

Walton

Weber

Webern

Grand Pianola Music, Fearful Symmetries, Wound Dresser, Shaker Loops, Chairman Dances, Short Ride in a Fast Machine

...but all shall be well, Dances from Powder her Face

Adagio for Strings

De Staat, M is for Man, Music & Mozart

Los Esclavos Felices Overture

Orchestral Suite No.1, Brandenburg Concerto No.3

Symphony No.1, First Essay for Orchestra, Second Essay for Orchestra, Adagio for Strings, Serenade for Strings (Op.1)

Concerto for Orchestra, Dance Suite, Divertimento, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, Romanian Folk Dances

Symphony No. 1-9, Egmont (complete), Leonora Overture No. 2 & 3, Fidelio Overture, Coriolanus Overture, Consecration of the House

Sinfonia

Romeo and Juliet, Roman Carnival Overture, Symphony Fantastique

Candide Overture, West Side Story Dances, Symphony No. 1, On the Town Dances

Carmen Suites 1 & 2, Jeux D’enfant, Symphony No 1

Polovtsian Dances, Overture to Prince Igor

Pli Selon Pli, Derive

Symphony No. 1-4, Hungarian Dances, Academic Festival Overture, Haydn Variations, Serenade No.2

Sinfonietta, Four Sea Interludes, Soirees musicales Op.9, Young Persons Guide

Symphony No. 4, 7-9, Symphony for Strings (quintet)

Symphony No.3, Appalachian Spring, Fanfare for the common man, Buckaroo Holiday, Rodeo, Quiet City

Gazebo Dances

La Mer, L'apres midi d'une Faune, Petite Suite, Nocturnes

Coppelia Suite

Propriocepts

To walk to the Paradise Garden, Brigg Fair

Variations 

Astrolatry

Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Symphony No.7-9, Slavonic Dances, Carnival Overture, Wind Serenade, String Serenade

Symphony No. 1, Enigma Variations, Pomp and Circumstance Marches, Introduction & Allegro, Elegy

Pavane

Symphony in D minor, Symphonic Variations

Concertino for Strings

Porgy and Bess Suite, American in Paris

Company

Russlan and Ludmilla Overture

Three Pieces in Old Style, Symphony No. 3

Symphony No.1

Shepherds Hey

Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2, Norwegian Dances, Erotik, Two Elegiac Melodies, Sigurd Jorsalfar, Holberg Suite

Music for Royal Fireworks, Water Music, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Most often used chords, Remembering Gatsby

Symphony No.45 "farewell", Symphony No.88, Surprise Symphony No.94, Symphony No.101-104

Metamorphosen, Mathis der Maler Symphony, Symphony in E-flat

Brook Green Suite, Saint Paul Suite, Planets

And God created great whales

Divertissement

The Unanswered Question

Sinfonietta, Jealousy Overture, Kreutzer Sonata for Strings, Idyla suite, Suite for Orchestra (opus 3)

New Era Dance

Spartacus

Powerhouse

When wind Blew

San Francisco Polyphony, Ramifications

Les Preludes, Hungarian Rhapsodies, Mephisto Waltz, Wanderer Fantasy

Venetian Games, Preludes & Fugues, Dance Preludes, Symphonic Variations

Symphony No.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10, Kindertotenlieder, Das Lied von der Erde, Rückert Lieder

Three Miro Pieces

Symphony No.1,3,4,5 Ein Sommernachstraum, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave)

Apocalypse

La Creation du monde, Symphonies for small orchestra

Points of Departure

Symphony No.25, 29, 35-41, Exsultate Jubilate, Le Nozze di Figaro Overture, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Die Enführung aus dem Serail, Divertimento in D major, Wind Octets (arr. of arias)


Night on Bald Mountain, Pictures at an Exhibition

Symphony No.4,5

Orpheus in the Underworld

Canon in D major

Canon in Memoriam Britten

Organ Concerto 

Romeo and Juliet, Symphony No.1 (Classical), Symphony No. 5, 7

Preludio Sinfonico, Crisantemi

Isle of the Dead, Symphony No.2, Vocalise

Ma Mère L’Oye, Daphnis et Chloe Suite No.1&2, Bolero, Introduction and Allegro, Pavane for a Dead Princess, Le Tombeau de Couperin, La Valse

Triple Quartet, Tehillim

Pines of Rome, Fountains of Rome, Trittico Botticelliano, Gli Ucelli (The Birds)

Capriccio Espangole, Flight of the Bumblebee, Russian Easter Festival Overture, Scheherazade

Barber of Seville Overture, William Tell Overture,  La Gazza Ladra Overture, La Scala di Seta Overture, Italian Girl in Algiers Overture, String Sonatas

Africa, Carnival of the Animals, Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso

Percussion Concerto

Gymnopedies

Concerto Grosso No.3, Moz-Art a la Haydn, Symphony No.1, 3, 5, Ritual

Percussion Concerto

Peirrot Lunaire, Five Pieces for Orchestra

Symphony No.1, 5 & 8

Manfred Overture, Symphony No. 1-3, Overture, Scherzo & Finale

Port Essington, Earth Cry, Sun Music III

Festive Overture, Symphony No.1, 5-10,14

Symphony No.1, 2,4,5,6 Rakastava, Swan of Tuonela, Finlandia, Tapiola

Moldau, From Bohemian Fields & Gardens

Die Fledermaus Overture, Gypsy Baron Overture, Blue Danube, Pizzicato Polka, Perpetuum Mobile, Emperor Waltz, Unter Donner and Blitz

Alpine Symphony, Don Juan, Don Quixote, Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Die Rosenkavalier (Suite), Metamorphosen, Four Last Songs, Ein Heldenleben

Firebird Suite (1945 & 1919), Le Sacre du Printemps, Octet, Ebony Concerto, Symphony in 3 movements, Dumbarton Oaks, Pulcinella, L’Histoire du Soldat, Suites 1 & 2, Concerto for Strings in D major, Petroushka, 

Rain Coming

Light Cavalry Overture

Symphony No.1, 4-6, Manfred Symphony, Romeo and Juliet Overture, 1812 Overture, Nutcracker Suite, Swan Lake (excerpts), Serenade for Strings

Adjustable Wrench

Made in America

Octandre, Ionisation 

Fantasia on Greensleaves, Fantasia on a theme by Tallis, The Lark Ascending, On Christmas Night

Hymn and Triumphal March, La Forza del Destino (overture)

Four Seasons

Symphony in D major

Ride of the Valkyries, Die Meistersingers overture, Siegfried Idyll, Waldweben, Tannhauser Overture

Façade, Symphony No.1

Oberon Overture

Five Pieces for Orchestra


CONCERTI

Bach

Barber

Bartók

Beethoven

Bernstein

Binge

Bloch

Boccherini

Brahms

Bruch

Chaminade

Chenoweth

Chopin

Copland

Cowell

Crussel

Debussy

Elgar

Franck

Flagello

Gershwin

Grieg

Haydn

Hindson

Ibert

Kabalevsky

Khachaturian

Korngold

Lalo

Lehár

Liszt

Macdowell

Macmillan

Mendelssohn

Mozart
 

Nielsen

Penderecki

Prokofiev

Rachmaninov

Ravel

Rossini

Sarasate

Schumann

Schedrin

Shostakovich

Strauss, R

Tchaikovsky

Vaughan Williams

Vieuxtemps

Villa Lobos

Double Violin Concerto, Violin Concerto in A minor, Violin Concerto in E major

Violin Concerto

Violin Concerto No.2

Piano Concerto No.1-5, Triple Concerto

Halil

Saxophone Concerto

Schelomo & Prayer

Cello Concerto in B-flat Major

Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto No.1 & 2, Four Serious Songs, Double Concerto for Cello and Violin

Violin Concerto, Kol Nidrei

Concertino for Flute

Mirror of the Moon

Piano Concertos 1 & 2

Clarinet Concerto

Asian Art suite

Clarinet Concerto No. 2

Premiere Rhapsody

Violoncello Concerto

Symphonic Variations

Concerto Sinfonico

Piano Concerto in F, Rhapsody in Blue

Piano Concerto

Trumpet Concerto

Violin Concerto

Flute Concerto

Violin Concerto

Violin Concerto

Violin Concerto

Symphonie Espagnole

The Merry Widow

Piano Concerto No.1 & 2

Piano Concerto No.2

Veni, Veni Emmanuel

Piano Concerto no.1

Piano Concertos (9, 19, 20-27), Violin Concertos (1-5), Sinfonia Concertante, Bassoon Concerto, Flute & Harp Concerto, Rondo in A Major

Clarinet Concerto

Flute Concerto

Piano Concertos No.1-3, Violin Concerto No.2

Piano Concerto No.1-3, Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

Tzigane, Piano Concerto in G

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs), Carmen Fantasy

Cello Concerto

Carmen Fantasy

Piano Concerto No. l & 2, Violin Concerto No.1, Cello Concerto No.1

Horn Concerto No. 1, Oboe Concerto, Burleske

Violin Concerto, Rococo Variations, Piano Concerto No.1

Flos Campi

Violin Concerto No.5

Ciranda das setes notas


CHORAL / ORCHESTRAL

Bach, CPE

Bach

Beethoven

Bernstein

Brahms

Britten

Bruckner

Borodin

Cherubini

Duruflé

Dvořák

Elgar

Fauré

Janáček

John

Leek

Händel

Haydn

Mahler

Monteverdi

Mozart

Orff

Pergolesi

Poulenc

Prokofiev

Purcell

Reich

Rossini

Rutter

Schubert

Sheriff

Shostakovich

Stravinsky

Tippett

V Williams

Verdi

Vivaldi

Walton

Magnificat

Mass in B minor, St. John Passion, Cantatas various, Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

Symphony No.9, Missa Solemnis

Chichester Psalms, Mass

Alto Rhapsody, German Requiem

Saint Nicholas, Ceremony of Carols

Te Deum, Mass in F minor

Polovstian Dances

Requiem in C minor

Requiem Mass

Stabat Mater, Requiem

Dream of Gerontius

Requiem

Glagolitic Mass

Three Country Poems

Glasshouses

Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Dixit Dominus, Dettingen Te Deum, Solomon, Zadok the Priest

Creation

Symphony No.2 & 3

Magnificat

Mass in C (Spaur), Requiem Mass K626, Mass in C minor

Carmina Burnana

Miserere, Magnificat

Gloria

Alexander Nevsky

Ode for St Cecilia’s Day

Desert Music

Stabat Mater

Gloria, Requiem

Mass in G, Mirjams Siegesgesang, Mass in A-flat

Mehaye Hametim

Execution of Stepan Rezin

Symphony of Psalms, Mass, Oedipus Rex

A Child of Our Time

O Clap your hands, Flos Campi, On Christmas Night

Requiem

Gloria, Magnificat

Belshazzar’s Feast