schedule
2024/25 season
This season, Joanna is a City Music Foundation artist (2024-26), performing recitals at St Martin-in-the-Fields and Merchant Taylor’s Hall. Listen to her perform with pianist Aleksandra Myslek on BBC Radio 3 “In Tune”. Other recitals this season include Italian song with pianist Anna Tilbrook as part of Opera Rara‘s Salon Series and Czech song to celebrate the “Year of Czech Music”.
Joanna brings SongPath to the Oxford International Song Festival and London Handel Festival and oratorio performances include Bach’s St Matthew Passion, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Durufle’s Requiem.
Opera roles include Cinderella (Prince/Stepmother) with Opera North little listeners, a role debut in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito (Sesto) with the Liberata Collective, and workshopping new opera Heaven Burns with Rough for Opera.
She also records new album Nightingale with pianist Jong Sun Woo for release on CRD Records in 2026.
12 September 2024
MARZE & MCGREGOR Heaven Burns (Isobel)
Rough for Opera – Chelsea Theatre, London
First showings of new opera Heaven Burns about Isobel, assistant to a Scottish witchpricker in 1662
13 October 2024
SongPath at Oxford International Song Festival
Worcester College Gardens – Oxford
SongPath returns to Oxford International Song Festival (Oxford Lieder)
with Jess Dandy (contralto), Flora Curzon (violin), Phil Muil (taijiquan & qigong), Simon Bagnall (Head Gardener)
22 October 2024
Masterclass with Catherine Wyn Rogers
Opera Prelude
The Garrison Chapel, Chelsea
with Brenton Spiteri (tenor), Peter Edge (baritone), Lucy Colquhoun (piano)
3 November 2024
DURUFLÉ Requiem
Chelsea Old Church, London
4 November 2024
Opera Prelude recital: Dreams, Illusions & Fantasies
Opera Prelude
with Thomas Ang (piano)
9 November 2024
Year of Czech Music concert
Rosslyn Hill Chapel – London
Emmy Destinn Foundation
Including songs and duets by DVORAK and excerpts from JANÀČEK The Diary of One Who Disappeared
25 November 2024
HOLST Sāvitri (extracts) & songs by Gustav & Imogen Holst
1901 Arts Club, London
with Ross Ramgobin (baritone), Susanna Stranders (piano)
30 November 2024
CHABRIER Une éducation manquée (Hélène)
Stamford Arts Centre
with Madeline Robinson (Gontran), George Robarts (Pausanius), Stamford Chamber Orchestra, Mark Austin (conductor)
December 2024 & January 2025
Cinderella (Prince / Stepmother)
Opera North
Little Listeners show – music by Massenet, Rossini & Viardot
Dates include:
1 December – National Centre for Early Music, York
7 & 8 December – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
15 December – Royal Opera House, London
20 December – Accrington Ball Room
21 December – Stoller Hall, Manchester
18 January – Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley
19 January – The Lowry, Salford
3 February 2025
City Music Foundation recital: Men to Avoid in Music & Life
Merchant Taylor’s – Drawing Room, London
with Aleksandra Myslek (piano)
Joanna is a City Music Foundation Artist
12 February 2025
National Opera Studio alumni event
The Ebert Room, Glyndebourne
with Rosalind Dobson (soprano), Phil Clieve (tenor), Jack Holton (baritone) & Jacob Swindells (piano)
9 March 2025
SongPath at London Handel Festival
Royal College of Physicians Gardens
London Handel Festival
with Jess Dandy (contralto), Toby Carr (lute), Jane Knowles (Head Gardener) & John Newton (Fellow of the Gardens)
20 March 2025
National Opera Studio Alumni recital: Nightingale
National Opera Studio, London
with Jong Sun Woo (piano)
April 2025
Album recording: Nightingale
with Jong Sun Woo (piano)
18 April 2025
BACH St Matthew Passion
St Mary’s Beverley
Beverley Chamber Choir, Jeffrey Makinson (conductor)
2 May 2025
City Music Foundation Recital: Nightingale
St-Martin-in-the-Fields, London
with Jong Sun Woo (piano)
Joanna is a City Music Foundation Artist
8 May 2025
Opera Rara Salon Series: Recital with Anna Tilbrook
22 Mansfield St – London
with Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Part of the Opera Rara Donizetti Song Project
25 May 2025
MOZART La Clemenza di Tito (Sesto)
Gŵyl Beaumaris / Beaumaris Festival – Wales
with the Liberata Collective
28 June 2025
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis (Mezzo soloist)
Bristol Beacon – Bristol
Bristol Choral Society, Hilary Campbell (conductor)
Next season...
Joanna’s debut album Letters from Scandinavia with pianist Sholto Kynoch is released in autumn 2025, and this new recital programme of song and spoken word opens the Oxford International Song Festival.
Joanna performs the roles of Suzy/Lolette in Opera Rara’s La Rondine with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers under conductor Carlo Rizzi at the Barbican, and also records the opera (including unheard music from the 1921 Paris version). She also brings SongPath to Brighton Early Music Festival with fellow singer Jess Dandy, and continues as a City Music Foundation artist this season.
