The British baritone David Wilson-Johnson was born in Northampton, studied Modern Languages at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Over a career already spanning thirty years he has been a guest of the major opera houses and orchestras and festivals worldwide. He has sung under many distinguished conductors including Pierre Boulez, Frans Brüggen, Carlo-Maria Giulini, Hartmut Haenchen, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Oliver Knussen, Reinbert de Leeuw, Gustav Leonhardt, Sir Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Kenneth Montgomery, André Previn and Sir Simon Rattle.

Opera repertoire includes Le Rossignol, L'Enfant et les Sortilleges, Boris Godunov, Turandot, Werther and Die Zauberflöte, Arianna, Cosí fan tutte (all at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Peter Grimes (Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva, Madrid), Billy Budd (ENO, ROH, Opera Bastille), La Damnation de Faust (Berlin, Turin, Tanglewood), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Amsterdam), Die Zauberflöte (Opera Garnier), Tristan und Isolde (Monte Carlo), Rameau's Les Boreades (Salzburg Festival), Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies (Opéra Comique), Sir Michael Tippett's A Midsummer Marriage (tv film) and the title role in Messiaen's St François d'Assise (London, BBCTV, Lyon, Amsterdam, Brussels, New York and Edinburgh Festival).

Concert repertoire includes Parsifal, Mahler 8 with the NYO under Rattle at the BBC Proms, Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers under Knussen at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole and Brahms Requiem under Previn in Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh and Oslo and Haydn's Seasons under Rattle, plus The Creation (educational projects in Amsterdam and Paris) with Brüggen, Britten's Death in Venice under Montgomery and Enescu's Oedipe at the Holland Festival. He sang Beethoven's Ninth under Leonard Slatkin at the Last Night of the Proms in 2001 after the events of 9/11 to a worldwide audience of 340 million.

Discography: Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield) as part of Angel Choir and Bootleg Chorus, the film Goodbye to Broad Street (The Beatles), and more traditionally works of Bach (Leonhardt and Giulini) Beethoven (Mackerras), Stravinsky, Schoenberg (Knussen), Ravel (Previn), Frank Martin's Jedermann Monologues, Schubert's Winterreise and songs by Finzi and Quilter on GMN.

In recent years he has sung title roles in Tippett's King Priam (Nationale Reisopera and BBC Proms), Albeniz's Merlin (Teatro Real Madrid), Shostakovitch's The Nose under Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (Netherlands Opera) and Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise (Edinburgh Festival).

David Wilson-Johnson taught for 21 years at the Summer School Ferrandou in The Dordogne. He now teaches at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatorium and lives between houses in Amsterdam, London and France.

Future projects include a tour with Sir Simon Rattle and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment of Schumann's Paradies an die Peri as well as a tour with Frans BrÝggen and the Orchestra of the 18th Century he tours with performances of Die Schöpfung and Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Further performances include La Damnation de Faust with Charles Dutoit and the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra in Zürich. He will sing Elias in Strasbourg under Heinz Holliger, the title role in Owen Wingrave in Tapiola with Stefan Asbury, Tippett's A Child of our Time with Sir Andrew Davis and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Elgar's Dream of Gerontius under Vladimir Ashkenazy with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.