John Jansson (composer)

John Jansson (born 15 January 1958) is a British conductor, composer, arranger and pianist. Biography John Denis Ingvar Jansson was born in Torquay, Devon, the son of a Swedish musician and an English singer. He was educated at University College School in Hampstead, and then trained at the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music, where his tutors included Alexander Kelly, Alfred Kitchin, Bernard Keefe and Paul Patterson. Career John Jansson has conducted several productions at the Royal National Theatre, among them Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George (Olivier Award) and Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (with Antony Sher). At the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio Theatre he conducted the London premiere of John Adams’s I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (also at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival), and he was the conductor for Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Barber’s A Hand of Bridge (Southwark Playhouse), Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock (Battersea Arts Centre) and Mel Smith’s The Gambler (Jermyn Street Theatre). As composer, he composed the scores for the York Mystery Plays, productions at the Donmar Warehouse and Kin