User:Geir Johnson/Geir Johnson

Geir Johnson (1953), composer, is the founder of Transposition, a large-scale music cooperation and development project for the leading music institutions of Vietnam and Norway. Besides his own career as composer, Geir Johnson has been active in the field of concert planning and management, first from the early 1980’s at the Henie-Onstad Arts Centre in Oslo, later by establishing the BIT 20 Ensemble and the Music Factory  festival in Bergen, the latter one with Yvar Mikhashoff. In the early 1990’s he was one of the founders of the contemporary music theatre company Opera Vest. From 1989 to 1995 he was President of Ny Musikk, the Norwegian section of ISCM, during which period the organization was also host to the ISCM World Music Days. From 1998-2009 he has been in charge as Artistic and Managing Director of the ULTIMA Oslo Contemporary Music Festival.