Graham Johnson is one of the most distinguished vocal accompanists of our time. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and with the late Geoffrey Parsons. In 1972, he was official accompanist at Peter Pear's masterclasses at The Maltings, Snape, and thereafter, he worked regularly with the great tenor. In 1976 Mr. Johnson formed The Songmakers' Almanac to further the cause of neglected areas of piano-accompanied vocal music, and to place the staple repertoire in new and challenging contexts. This endeavor was much supported by the late Gerald Moore, whose guiding influence in Graham Johnson's career was of crucial importance. Apart from devising and accompanying over one hundred fifty Songmakers' recitals, Mr. Johnson has presented a number of summer recital cycles at the South Bank and Wigmore Hall, as well as seven-part cycle of Goethe settings for the Alte Oper, Frankfurt. He has written and presented programs for both BBC Radio and Television on the songs of Schubert, Poulenc, Liszt, and Shostakovich. He is Professor of Accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music, and is a Fellow of that school as well as the Royal Academy of Music. He has given masterclasses as far afield as Finland, New Zealand, and at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. Graham Johnson has accompanied such distinguished singers as Elly Ameling, Victoria de los Angeles, Arlene Argur, Brigitte Fassbaender, Matthias Goerne, Tom Krause, Ann Murray, Felicity Palmer, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Marjana Lipovsek, Jessye Norman, Lucia Popp, Dame Margaret Price, Christine Schafer, and Peter Schreier. He has accompanied Dame Felicity Lott since their student days at the Royal Academy of Music where they worked together with the late Flora Nielsen. Graham Johnson records for Sony, BMG, Forlane, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, and EMI labels. His ten-year project to record the entire Schubert Lieder for Hyperion continues to attract critical acclaim, including the Gramophone Solo Vocal Award in both 1989 (for his disc with Dame Janet Baker) and in 1996 (for Die schone Mullerin with Ian Bostridge). He has now embarked on a new project for Hyperion, to record the entire Lieder of Schumann - the first disc in this series, with Christine Schafer, won the 1997 Gramophone Solo Vocal Award. He has just completed, with Richard Stokes, A French Song Companion, published by Oxford University Press. He was made an OBE in the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours list.