Camille Johnson is a native of Fort Worth, Texas, who holds multiple degrees in organ performance. She is an active teacher who maintains a private studio of over 25 students ages four and up. Ms. Johnson focuses on personalized instruction that draws creativity from each student. She believes music is the greatest magic of all and loves helping students grow into independent musicians.

Through her years of teaching, Ms. Johnson discovered a passion for pedagogy and believes student success stems from clearly guided instruction and deliberate practice. While teaching Piano Methods and Pedagogy, she recognized a need for guided lesson worksheets to help novice teachers categorically assess and instruct students. In her personal teaching experiences, Ms. Johnson recognized a need for student accountability in a meaningful way through a simple daily practice logbook. These two ideas, combined with her theory, technique, and history background, paved the way for her 50-week journal “My Music Journey” (2024), which guides students and teachers to success.

In addition to her private studio, Ms. Johnson is working on her Ph.D. in Musicology at Arizona State University, where she previously received her M.M. in Organ Performance under Kimberly Marshall. During this time, she focused on Spanish baroque organs and repertoire. She published “Summer “School”: Organ Academy in Segovia, Spain” in The American Organist (2024). Her current research examines Americans' sacred music and how gender and race inform spiritual identity.

Ms. Johnson is an active member of the American Guild of Organists, and she recently completed a three-year term on the Young Organist National Committee. During her time working with young organists, Ms. Johnson taught at a Pipe Organ Encounter for students under the age of 18, gave a series of webinars on “forScore for the Modern Organist,” and helped organize events designed for young organists at regional and national conventions.

An advocate of female musicianship and representation, Ms. Johnson previously interned for the Boulanger Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to redefining the musical canon. Currently, she serves on the AGO Task Force for Gender Equity, which seeks to attract a new generation of young women to the field of organ. Ms. Johnson is also committed to sharing beautiful music by female composers and was featured on the PBS documentary Pipe Dreams, “One Hundred Plus” special. A “. . . celebration of the indomitable spirit of American composer Margaret Sandresky and her 101st birthday!”

Ms. Johnson was recently awarded an Organ Historical Society Biggs Scholar research position for a three-year term in 2023. Through this opportunity, she gave a lecture-recital for the Organ Historical Society Baltimore convention 2024 on JKF Fischer’s “Euterpe” Suite.

When not busy practicing or preparing music, Camille enjoys rock climbing, reading, and spending time with her adorable black cat, Aries.