Performances of Joanna's works include Tête-á-Tête, the Orchestra of the Swan, Psappha, Jane Manning, Sarah Leonard, Elysian Quartet, Joby Burgess, Darragh Morgan and CoMA, with workshop performances by BCMG and De Ereprijs. Joanna's compositions have been shortlisted for a British Composer Award, featured in Premieres of the Year 2008 in Classical Music magazine and have been shortlisted by the SPNM.

Joanna's work has been performed as part of the BMIC Cutting Edge Series and Spitalfields Festival, and includes performances at the Purcell Room, The Warehouse and The Spitz. She also works as music assistant to Paul Englishby, which has included projects with the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Ballet and at Abbey Road Studios.

Joanna is currently studying for a PhD specializing in vocal composition under the tuition of Edwin Roxburgh, Sarah Leonard and Richard Causton, with additional tutorage from Judith Weir and Howard Skempton.

" . . . the imaginative and rigorous writing of Joanna Lee, whose 'Chansons Innocentes', assured and confident in the composition, would have flattered any composer, let alone a 26-year-old student . . . Lee showed herself gifted . . . one of the most successful [commissions] I have ever heard in 40 years of reviewing . . . "
Christopher Morley, Birmingham Post, 21/2/2008

"I was so impressed with this inventive little piece"
Sarah Leonard speaking about 'your little voice', The Singer, Oct/Nov 2004

"Evanescent, well-imagined Pierrot!"
Christopher Morley, Birmingham Post, 3/4/2006