Composer · Conductor · 1962
Craig Hella Johnson
Well-Known Works
- Michael Howard, Michael Zook, Vandegrift High School Chorale Tenor-Bass Choir, Austin Haller
- Jim Wilson, Lynda Hasseler, Jo Scurlock-Dillard, Texas All-State Treble Choir
- Dawn Sheridan-Reinhuber, San Marcos High School Men's Choir
- Joshua Chai, 2019 TMEA Texas Two-Year College All-State Choir, Craig Hella Johnson
- Joshua Chai, 2019 TMEA Texas Two-Year College All-State Choir, Craig Hella Johnson
- Michael Howard, Michael Zook, Vandegrift High School Chorale Tenor-Bass Choir, Austin Haller
- Joshua Chai, 2019 TMEA Texas Two-Year College All-State Choir, Craig Hella Johnson
- Texas State Chorale, Joey M. Martin
Singles & EPs
- Cinco Ranch High School Chorale, Dorothy Wilson
Biography
Craig Hella Johnson is a conductor and composer known mostly for choral conducting and as for founding the choral group Conspirare in 1991. Johnson has served as the artistic director and conductor as of the mid-2020s. Johnson made his recording debut with that group in 2004 on the album Through the Green Fuse. Johnson and Conspirare have been nominated for six Grammy Awards, winning in 2015 for The Sacred Spirit of Russia. He led Conspirare on the 2019 album Hope of Living: Choral Music of Jake Runestad, which earned a Grammy nomination. Johnson and Conspirare returned in 2023 with the album House of Belonging.