Geir Johnson (13 June 1953 – 16 September 2021[1]) was a composer, writer and initiator of culture projects living at Nesodden outside Oslo.
[3] Geir Johnson was active in the field of concert planning and management, first from the early 1980s at the Henie-Onstad Arts Centre in Oslo, later by establishing the BIT 20 Ensemble and the Music Factory festival in Bergen.
As part of this work he also planned and co-developed music projects in many European countries, as one of the founding members of the festival network Réseau Varèse in 1999.
[4] Since 2003, he developed Parkteatret, a multi-purpose concert hall with approximately 250 events a year, without public support; it is located in downtown Oslo.
[8] In 2015, Johnson edied the book Viet Nam Overtures, a collection of articles covering the history and development of Transposition.