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Crystal Jarrell Johnson,
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Crystal Jarrell Johnson,
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About Crystal Jarrell Johnson, Mezzo-soprano

 

Mezzo-soprano Crystal Jarrell Johnson is in demand as a concert artist in and around the South Texas region. A two time regional finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a finalist in the National Opera Association’s Vocal Competition, she spent her early career appearing with opera companies and symphony orchestras throughout the United States. In recent years she has been a frequent soloist in oratorios, recitals, symphonic works, chamber music, choral masterworks, church music, and has a special interest in historically informed performance practice. She has performed with a number of musical organizations around South Texas, including the San Antonio Mastersingers, San Antonio Symphony, OPERA San Antonio, Mid-Texas Symphony, San Antonio Choral Society, Alamo Baroque Festival, Sonido Barroco San Antonio, Musica Sacra San Antonio, Texas Baroque Ensemble, and the San Antonio Chamber Choir. In the last two seasons, Ms. Jarrell Johnson has been a familiar face with Sonido Barroco San Antonio for programs such as “Dawn of the Baroque,” “Le Chaos,” “Terra Antiqua, Terra Nova,” “Vivaldi at the Pieta,” Handel’s complete Messiah, and J.S. Bach’s Erfreut euch, ich Herzen, BWV 66. Other recent performances have included Corigliano’s Fern Hill, Respighi's Lauda per la Natività del Signore, Copland’s In the Beginning, Mozart’s Requiem, J.S. Bach’s Magnificat, Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat, Vivaldi'sGloria, El Mesias - Handel’s Messiah in a new Spanish translation, and Manuel de Zumaya’s cantada Si ya a aquella nave in a historically informed performance of Mexican cathedral music in San Antonio’s Mission Concepción. Ms. Jarrell Johnson is a regularly featured artist on Texas Public Radio, has toured Texas and beyond with her vocal ensemble DEUX, and currently serves on the voice faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio.


As an educator, Crystal Jarrell Johnson is a member of NATS and maintains a dynamic and active voice studio. Her students have excelled in competitions such as NATS National Student Auditions, Classical Singer Vocal Competition, George Shirley Vocal Competition, Mariachi Extravaganza National Vocal Competition, and the Hal Leonard Vocal Competition. Her pre-college students have been 1st chair Texas All State Choir members, soloists with Children's Chorus of San Antonio, YouthCUE Choirs, OPERA San Antonio youth chorus members, and have sung in concerts with the San Antonio Symphony and Shreveport Symphony. Her university students have recently been invited for arts & nonprofit summer internships, are active members of church choirs across San Antonio and Boerne, are frequently featured in leading roles in UTSA Lyric Theatre productions, are frequent soloists with UTSA ensembles, and are regularly sought after to perform for various university and community events. Former students have gone on to summer programs such as Houston Grand Opera Young Artist Vocal Academy, Music Academy of the West, Central City Opera, Opera In The Ozarks, Cactus Pear Chamber Music Festival Young Artist Program, and have continued music studies at institutions such as Manhattan School of Music, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Boston Conservatory of Music at Berklee, University of North Texas, Stanford University, and The University of Texas at Austin.


For inquiries regarding masterclasses or adjudication, please send a message through the Contact Form.

Upcoming Performances

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Recent Performances

May 12, 2025

Cancionero de luto, Armando Bayolo 

World premiere

SOLI & San Antonio Chamber Choir (ensemble)

St. Mark's Episcopal Church San Antonio


April 18, 2025

Alto Soloist and Chamber Choir

St. John Passion (J.S. Bach)

Sonido Barroco San Antonio

Zion Lutheran Church San Antonio


April 11 & 12, 2025

Alto Soloist: Bach Easter Oratorio

San Antonio Philharmonic

Little Flower Basilica and OLLU Sacred Heart Chapel


March 29 & 30, 2025

Musical Wilderness of Mirrors (ensemble)

San Antonio Chamber Choir

Chapel of the Incarnate Word at UIW


March 19, 2025

Mezzo Soloist, "An Echo, An Ending", and "Time"

Chamber Music Concert: Music of Shawn Okpebholo

University of Texas at San Antonio


Dec 20 & 21, 2024

Mezzo Soloist: Angels (Choi) 

San Antonio Chamber Choir: Brake for Christmas

University of the Incarnate Word 

Diane Bennack Concert Hall

and Judson Center for the Performing Arts in Converse, TX


Dec 8, 2024

Alto Soloist: The Record of John (Gibbons)

Vespers at St. John's Lutheran Church San Antonio


Dec 1, 2024

Alto Soloist: Messiah (Handel)

San Antonio Mastersingers

at University Methodist Church, San Antonio, TX


Nov 3, 2024

Mezzo Soloist: Duruflé Requiem

All Saints Concert

St. Mark's Episcopal Church San Antonio


Nov 1, 2024

Solo Recital: All Saints

First Friday Series at St. John's Lutheran

Church San Antonio

with Seth Nelson, organ/piano


September 28 & 29, 2024

Mezzo Soloist, Serenade to Music (Vaughan Williams)

When the Violin Sings, with SA Chamber Choir

First Presbyterian Church, Kerrville, TX 

and Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower, San Antonio, TX


March 15, 2024

Mezzo Soloist, Leçons de Ténèbre: Couperin by Candlelight, Deux with Regi Cantorum presented by Houston Early Music at Christ the King Lutheran Church, Houston, TX 


February 23 & 24, 2024

Mezzo Soloist in Corigliano's Fern Hill 

with San Antonio Philharmonic and Mastersingers


Dec 16, 2023

Mezzo Soloist (Mary) Laud to the Nativity by Ottorino Respighi

with San Antonio Chamber Choir

Chapel of the Incarnate Word San Antonio


November 12, 2023

Alto Soloist Messiah with Sonido

Barroco, Zion Lutheran Church San Antonio


October 7, 2023

DEUX: Vocal Duets Through the Ages

with Angela Malek, soprano and Elena Portnaya, piano

UTRGV Distinguished Artist Series

TSC Performing Arts Center, Brownsville, TX


September 10, 2023

Deux: Early Baroque Motets of Monteverdi and Cozzolani, Concert and Vespers

The Church of the Annunciation

Houston, Tx

With Catherine Schaefer, organ

Therese Honey, Harp


May 13, 2023

"Vivaldi at the Pietà" with

Sonido Barocco

Zion Lutheran Church

May 7, 2023

Soloist, "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen

San Antonio Chamber Choir Donor Event


May 6-7, 2023 

Small Ensemble, "O Frondens Virga" Hildegard

The Musical Soul of Jake Runestad

San Antonio Chamber Choir

The Chapel of the Incarnate Word


April 20, 2023

Alto Soloist, "Domine ad adjuvandum me festina" Martini

UTSA Choral Cavalcade


April 4, 2023

Music for Viola, Voice, and Piano

Faculty and Friends Chamber Music Recital

Dawkins, Hufty, Nelson and Johnson

UTSA Recital Hall


March 20, 2023

The 24 Italian Songs and Arias 

Olson, Howell, Johnson and Lee

Faculty Recital

UTSA Recital Hall


March 4, 2023

Soloist, "Le Chaos" 

Sonido Barroco San Antonio

Guadalupe Chapel at St. Mary's University


January 6, 2023

DEUX: Musical Offering for Epiphany

Queen of Angels Catholic Church

Dickinson, Texas


December 17-18, 2022

Alto Soloist, El Mesias

San Antonio Chamber Choir

Oblate Chapel San Antonio


December 11, 2022

Alto soloist, "This is the Record of John" Gibbons

Advent Service

St. John's Lutheran Church San Antonio


December 4, 2022

Alto Soloist: Handel's Messiah

San Antonio Mastersingers

University United Methodist San Antonio


September 30, 2022

Soloist, “Terra Antiqua, Terra Nova”

Sonido Barroco San Antonio 

Mission Concepcion


September 25, 2022

Soloist, “In the Beginning” by Aaron Copland 

San Antonio Chamber Choir

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower

Video

"Es ist vollbracht" Alto Aria from J.S. Bach's St. John Passion, BWV 245 

Eric Taeang Mun, Viola da gamba 

John Walters, Cello 

Stephen Lochbaum, Theorbo 

Geoffrey Waite, Organ 

Sonido Barroco San Antonio , Zion Lutheran Church San Antonio 

April 18, 2025 

"An Echo and Ending" (from Unknown) by Shawn Okpebholo (b. 1981)

Rami El-Farrah, saxophone 

Kasandra Keeling, piano 

New Music Festival 

The University of Texas at San Antonio

March 19, 2025 

"Pie Jesu" from Duruflé Requiem

St. Mark's Episcopal Church San Antonio 

Jon Johnson, conductor 

David Heller, organ 

November 3, 2024 

“L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” (Habanera) from Carmen by Georges Bizet  

Elena Portnaya, collaborative pianist 

UTRGV ARTS: Distinguished Artist Series 

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Serenade, from Quatre Poemes, Op. 5, Charles M. Loeffler 

Allyson Dawkins, viola N. 

Seth Nelson, piano 

The University of Texas at San Antonio 

April 4, 2023

"Erbarme dich" from St. Matthew’s Passion, J.S. Bach 

Beth Johnson, violin 

Geoffrey Waite, piano  

Fist Baptist Church, San Antonio 

First Fine Arts Lenten Artist Series 

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