Jennifer Johnston won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer Award 2021, in recognition of her “commitment and emotional force…from cherished performances as artist-in-residence with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra to her outstanding work supporting young musicians.”

Her engagements during the 2023/24 season include Mahler’s Third Symphony with Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Vienna, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with K.Petrenko and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in Munich and with Bychkov and the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hamburg, Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle with Mäkelä and the Oslo Filharmonien, Ravel’s Scheherazade with Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, Verdi’s Requiem with V.Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the British premiere of David Fennessy’s Conquest of the Useless with Sheen and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Hill and the Philharmonia Orchestra, and she will record Williams’s Missa Cambrensis with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for Nimbus.

Jennifer is a former BBC New Generation Artist, and a graduate of Cambridge University and the Royal College of Music. She is particularly associated with the Bayerische Staatsoper where her roles have included Mrs Sedley Peter Grimes, Brigitte Die Todt Stadt, Second Norn Götterdämmerung, Roßweise Die Walküre, Floßhilde Das Rheingold & Götterdämmerung, Hedwige Guillaume Tell and La Ciesca Gianni Schicci. She has also appeared in opera at the Glyndebourne Festival as Juno Semele, Teatro alla Scala as Mrs Grose The Turn of the Screw , Salzburg Festival as Carmi La Betulia Liberata, Lady de Hautdesert Gawain, Leda Die Liebe Der Danae and at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Dido Dido and Aeneas.

A prolific concert performer, she has performed with many of the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors. Her recent engagements have included Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with Madaras and the Hallé Orchestra, Mahler’s Second Symphony with V.Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler’s Third Symphony with Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra, Elgar’s Sea Pictures with Slatkin and the Irish National Symphony Orchestra, Chausson’s Poeme de l’Amour et de La Mer with de Billy and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler’s Das Lied Von Der Erde with Pintscher and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, ‘Woman: Interrupted’ with Malcolm Martineau at Wigmore Hall, and Verdi’s Requiem with Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the First Night of the Proms on BBC Two.