Fred Johnson

FRED JOHNSON has enjoyed an audio career covering many areas. He has worked in live sound reinforcement and recording for concerts and theater, broadcast for radio and television, audio consulting, video editing, animation production and church sound design. His specialties are the genres of classical and jazz, with his research interests being microphone technique.

He earned a BS in Music and a MS in Recording Arts from the University of Colorado-Denver and served on their faculty from 2008-16, teaching classes in Audio Production, Critical Listening and Surround Sound.  Prior to that he spent time as the Audio Engineer for the University of Colorado-Boulder, College of Music, served as the Recording Engineer for the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and was the Production Director for two different non-profits, producing audio/video materials for training and broadcast. 

Professor Johnson has worked with the Colorado Symphony, the Takacs String Quartet, Dave and Don Grusin, the Colorado Music Festival, Christopher O’Riley, Carter Brey, the Boulder Bach Festival, the International Trombone Society, the Crested Butte Music Festival, Angela Cheng, Tom Myer, Chuck Wolzien and many others. His work has been heard on NPR’s "Performance Today" and several television networks. He has also produced audio/video projects with groups in France, Lithuania and Senegal.