Manitoba Music
Event
- Date
- Sunday, May 7, 2017 at 2:30pm
- Performers
- Simon Johnson
- Location
- Westminster United Church
- Address
- 745 Westminster Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
About
Simon Johnson, Organist & Assistant Director of Music at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England, has a remarkable and multifaceted international career as a virtuoso organist, conductor and composer. He has been involved in all of the national occasions that have taken place at St Paul’s since his appointment in 2008, including the funeral service of Baroness Thatcher and the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen. Recitals have taken him all over Europe and the USA, as well as to many of the premier venues in the UK. He has performed with groups such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and The Sixteen and worked with Wes Anderson on the Oscar, Bafta and Grammy award-winning soundtrack for The Grand Budapest Hotel.