Honours
Johnson was made an OBE in the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours list. He was The Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist of the Year in 1998. In June 2000, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In 2002, he was created Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He was granted Honorary Membership in the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2010.
Awards for his recordings include the Gramophone solo vocal award in 1989 (with Dame Janet Baker), 1996 (Die schöne Müllerin with Ian Bostridge), 1997 (for the inauguration of the Robert Schumann series with Christine Schäfer) and 2001 (with Magdalena Kozena).
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