Composer · Conductor · 1962
Craig Hella Johnson
Well-Known Works
- Vandegrift High School Chorale Tenor-Bass Choir, Austin Haller, Michael Zook, Michael Howard
- Jim Wilson, Texas All-State Treble Choir, Jo Scurlock-Dillard, Lynda Hasseler
- San Marcos High School Men's Choir, Dawn Sheridan-Reinhuber
- 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, Joshua Chai
- Vandegrift High School Chorale Tenor-Bass Choir, Austin Haller, Michael Zook, Michael Howard
- 2019 TMEA Texas Two-Year College All-State Choir, Craig Hella Johnson, Joshua Chai
- Texas State Chorale, Joey M. Martin
Singles & EPs
- Dorothy Wilson, Cinco Ranch High School Chorale
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.