Johan Hartman

The son of two accomplished musicians on both modern and Baroque instruments, classical music has been a part of Johan's life since before he was born. As a boy soprano he performed the role of Amahl in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors at the Bushnell Center of Performing Arts, the role of Sem in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, and he performed Bach’s Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen in Glastonbury, England.  

As a young bass-baritone he has already performed an impressive number of operatic roles, including Leporello in Don Giovanni, Seneca in Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea, Sarastro in The Magic Flute, Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro, Ariodate in Handel's Xerxes, Pistola in Verdi’s Falstaff, Truffaldin in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, and Superintendent Budd in Britten's Albert Herring. 

He has also appeared in a number of concerts and recitals across the east coast, including as a soloist in the New England Conservatory's production of Handel's Messiah in Boston, a soloist in The Mostly Baroque Players’ Classical Masterworks concert in Hartford, as well as being a soloist in a concert given in 2018 by Constitution Records at the Frost School of music in Miami. 

Johan has had some of the finest music education in the country. Not only does he boast degrees from institutions such as the New England Conservatory (B.A. in vocal performance) and CCM  (M.M. in vocal performance), but he has studied with eminent opera singers from all over the world. These include names such as Allan Glassman, Kenneth Shaw, Julianne Baird, Gidon Saks, Wayne Rivera Gustavo Halley, Karen Holvik, and Jeremy Aye.

He is passionate about premiering new music, and he's had the opportunity to premiere music by three different Boston based composers; Yeeray Low, Ian Weiss, and Timothy Ayers-Kerr in which he played a principal role in his opera Game of Werewolf. He also premiered a Chamber Opera during his time at CCM entitled With Her Eyes, which was composed by Ye Zhao. 

As a composer he's written two song-cycles. Blood and the Moon is a setting of the W.B. Yeats poem of the same name, and was premiered by Johan in April of 2021 in Cincinnati. His most recently composed work, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, is still awaiting it's premiere, likely in Miami 2023.