James Johnston

- harpsichord

James Johnstone teaches early keyboards at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and at Trinity College of Music in London. For many years he has been a principal of the Gabrieli Consort and Players and as such has contributed to their many award-winning CDs. Since Autumn 2001 he has been a core member of the chamber ensemble Florilegium with whom he has made CDs of Telemann, Haydn and Bolivian baroque music, and has toured the UK, Europe and North and South America.

James has recorded and performed throughout Europe and the United States as a soloist and continuo player. In recent years he has given solo recitals in Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, Israel and Colombia. His first solo CD - 'John Blow's Anthology' - was critically acclaimed; in 1999 his CD of keyboard works by Orlando Gibbons on ASV received the prestigious Deutsche Schallplattenkritik prize. Spring 2001 saw the release of a Bach recital recorded on the historic Christian Muller organ in the Waalse Kerk, Amsterdam.

He teaches early keyboards at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and at Trinity College of Music in London.