Morag Johnston is a baroque violinist who studied at The Royal Conservatoire of The Hague and Hochschule für Künst, Bremen. She is a founding member of The Brewery Band. In 2021, she will begin research into memorisation techniques at the University of Aberdeen. 

Morag is an international artist. Notable projects in 2021 included a tour of Handel’s Rinaldo with the Banquet Celeste; concerts with Ensemble Baroque de Rennes and a tour of Beethoven and Bewald’s Septets with Astrolabe. In France in 2020, she performed Locatelli and Bach as a soloist at Recordara Festival, Nantes. For Musique France and Les Abbayes aux Dames, she recorded The Seven Last Words of Christ with conductor Hervé Niquet. She plays regularly with Ensemble Baroque de Rennes who bring baroque music to new and wider audiences. In Germany, she regularly works with Hamburg - based ensemble Schirokko. She has performed at Elbphilharmonie, Totnes Early Music Society, with Dunedin Consort, Dutch National Opera Academy and at The Globe Theatre, London. She has appeared at Utrecht Fringe Festival and Edinburgh International Fringe Festival.  

A passionate and qualified pedagogue, she has taught at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Huntly Summer School which she co-directed for 10 years. In 2020, she set up the memorisation project Scottish Whispers which teaches folk music to students all over the world with a unique aural method. 

She won the North Nibley Scholarship and with her ensemble The Brewery Band, The Stroud Green Festival Ensemble Award.