Edmond Johnson is Senior Director of Advising at Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he also serves as Affiliated Faculty in Music History. He received a BA in music from Lawrence University and a MA and PhD in musicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
As a higher education professional, his work focuses on academic advising, student success, and high-impact educational practices. At Occidental, he provides institution-level leadership in advising, including support and guidance for over 150 faculty advisors. With extensive experience in planning and assessment, he has participated in multiple program reviews and strategic planning processes.
As a music historian, his research focuses on the history of musical instruments and their intersecting social, cultural, and technological histories, with particular interests in keyboard instruments. He has written on the history of the early music revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Recent projects have focused on the cultural history of the pipe organ.
His publications include articles in the Journal of Musicology and Keyboard Perspectives, as well as contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments and the Grove Dictionary of American Music. His article “The Death and Second Life of the Harpsichord” (Journal of Musicology) was awarded the 2015 Frances Densmore Prize by the American Musical Instrument Society.
He currently serves as the Reviews Editor for the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society and is the Vice President of the Los Angeles Theatre Organ Society. In addition, he is a board member of the American Musical Instrument Society and the Ruth and Clarence Mader Memorial Scholarship Fund.