About

Timothy Johnson is a Norwegian guitarist, composer, and educator, based in NYC. He has performed at world-renowned jazz clubs like Dizzy’s Club (NYC), Smalls (NYC), Ornithology(NYC), The 55 Bar (NYC), 54 Below (NYC), Scullers Jazz (Boston), Regattabar (Boston), South Jazz Kitchen(Philadelphia), and at festivals like the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival (Argentina), as well as clubs in Japan and Norway. Additionally he has graced the stage with jazz luminaries such as Damien Sneed, Melissa Aldana, Randy Ingram, Erena Terakubo, Milena Casado, JK Kim, Kanoa Mendenhall, Jihee Heo, Tom Oren, Neal Smith, Eri Chichibu, Kento Tsubosaka, Martha Kato, Matt Wong, Dabin Ryu, Tommaso Perazzo, and Bruno Raberg, and many more.

As an orchestrator/copyist/arranger, he has assisted composer Damien Sneed with various projects like the reworking of the Scott Joplin opera “Treemonisha” premiering at the St. Louis Opera in May 2023, gospel legend Twinkie Clark & the Clark Sisters with orchestra at The Town Hall in NYC January 2023, Karen Clark Sheard with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra April 2023, and Wicked star Cynthia Erivo performing at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Gala November 2023.

He completed his Bachelors degree at the Berklee College of Music on scholarship, and recently completed his Masters degree at the Manhattan School of Music on scholarship, studying with guitarist Mike Moreno. He has received many prestigious awards along the way, such as the Berklee Jimi Hendrix Award, the NAMM Innovation Award, the Juvenarte composition award, placed runner up in Lee Ritenour’s Dreamcatcher Competition, and most recently was a scholarship/fellowship recipient of the Norway-Amerika Association. He appears on recordings by the award winning composer Eri Chichibu, as well as singer April Varner’s release “Hummingbird”, and is preparing to record his debut album later this year.