Joanna Harries

British/New-Zealand mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries was a 2021/22 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio, London, performing with the orchestras of English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North and Scottish Opera.

In the 2022/23 season she makes her debut with Opera Rara and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Southbank Centre, and with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, and sings roles for Opera Holland Park, The Barber Opera and Buxton International Festival with the Liberata Collective. She is one of the singers selected for the Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition 2022 with pianist Thomas Ang, and brings mental health initiative SongPath back to Oxford Lieder with contralto Jess Dandy.

A graduate of Cambridge University, the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Joanna is a Britten-Pears Young Artist, Handel House Talent artist and is an Opera Prelude Young Artist. Her performances as concert soloist include Snape Maltings Concert Hall, the Bach Festival Świdnica in Poland and with the BBC Philharmonic at Harrogate Royal Hall.