Meet Danielle Johnson
Degrees and Experience
- B.M.E. (Wheaton College Conservatory of Music)
- M.M. (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Biography and Professional Achievements
Danielle Johnson is highly sought after as a guest clinician and adjudicator along the Front Range and Western Slope. An active performer, Johnson plays associate principal viola in the Steamboat Symphony Orchestra. For 12 years, she spent the summer months as Dean of Women and Interdisciplinary Faculty Instructor for the string chamber music program, Rocky Mountain Summer Conservatory in Steamboat Springs, CO. Since 2011, Johnson conducted six European summer orchestra tours and was one of the original architects of the Lebanese International String Orchestra Workshop held at Notre Dame University in Beirut.
Johnson taught orchestra in the Adams 12 District for 20 years. In 2013, she was named Colorado's "Music Director Who Makes a Difference" by the publication School Band & Orchestra Magazine. Additionally, she was nominated as “Outstanding Music Educator” in the 2022 edition of Marquis’ Who’s Who in America. Previously, she taught for Wheaton's pre-college program, the International School of Bangkok in Thailand, Boulder Suzuki Strings, and the public schools in Omaha, Nebraska and Boulder, Colorado.
Johnson received her Bachelor of Music Education from Wheaton College Conservatory in Wheaton, Illinois, and her Masters in Violin Performance/Pedagogy from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Faith and Learning
Professor Johnson believes the classroom is an ideal place to reflect God's love to her students. Additionally, the music classroom reflects His beauty and creativity. Therefore, she feels it is the ideal place to, as John Piper states, “make much of Christ”. Whether she is teaching directly in the K-12 classroom or equipping future teachers with the skills needed to go into the field, her goal will always be to use the gift of teaching to magnify Christ.