Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson conducts a full season of Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra concerts, ranging from Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich symphonies to a holiday pops program and a Star Wars film music concert. Based on this schedule, he appears to be a resident or regularly engaged conductor with this orchestra rather than a guest appearing for a single date.

Listeners can expect Johnson leading a wide stylistic range rather than a single specialty. His season includes big Romantic symphonies (Tchaikovsky's Fifth, Shostakovich's Fifth), a concerto program pairing Mendelssohn's violin concerto with an overture by Farrenc, an opera chorus showcase drawn from Verdi and Mascagni, a holiday concert, and a film music program built around John Williams's Star Wars scores. The Ellis Island program mixes Bernstein's Candide overture, Barber's string quartet, a Florence Price piano concerto, and Peter Boyer's narrated concert work about American immigration. Across these dates, a listener should expect a conductor comfortable moving between core orchestral repertoire, vocal and choral excerpts, and orchestral pops, likely with attention to pacing a mixed program for a general audience rather than a single interpretive signature.