"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 . . .
one of the most successful [commissions] I have ever heard in 40 years of reviewing."
Christopher Morley, Birmingham Post, February 02/2008
“pitched at an astonishing high level of technical finesse”
(Joanna Lee and 5 composers of Britten-Pears Young Composers concert), Ivan Hewitt, Telegraph, 06/2010
“sharply witty music by Joanna Lee.”
Rupert Christiansen, Telegraph, 08/2010
“This year’s major discovery is young composer Joanna Lee, winner of the Stephen Oliver Award and hotly tipped by Tête à Tête for great things”
Tête à Tête press release, 08/2010
Christopher Morley, Birmingham Post, February 02/2008
“pitched at an astonishing high level of technical finesse”
(Joanna Lee and 5 composers of Britten-Pears Young Composers concert), Ivan Hewitt, Telegraph, 06/2010
“sharply witty music by Joanna Lee.”
Rupert Christiansen, Telegraph, 08/2010
“This year’s major discovery is young composer Joanna Lee, winner of the Stephen Oliver Award and hotly tipped by Tête à Tête for great things”
Tête à Tête press release, 08/2010
Joanna is BCMG/SAM Apprentice Composer-in-Residence for 2012, for which she will write a new work for BCMG to be premiered in Spring 2013 conducted by Oliver Knussen, who is Joanna's mentor for the year-long residency. Joanna is also composing a full-scale chamber opera having been awarded a Jerwood Opera Writing Fellowship, and a piece for EXAUDI commissioned by Aldeburgh Music, to be premiered in September 2012.
Performances of Joanna's work include London Symphony Orchestra, BCMG, Psappha, CHROMA, Orchestra of the Swan, Elysian Quartet, Jane Manning, Sarah Leonard, Loré Lixenberg, Omar Ebrahim, Joby Burgess and Robin Michael in the Aldeburgh Festival, Tête á Tête Opera Festival, Park Lane Group Young Artists Series, BMIC Cutting Edge Series and Ultraschall Festival in Berlin.
Joanna has studied on the Britten-Pears Contemporary Composition Course, LSO Panufnik Scheme, Jerwood Opera Foundation Course and is completing a PhD at Birmingham Conservatoire, tutored by Richard Causton and Edwin Roxburgh. She works as composer assistant to Paul Englishby, which has included music for the Oscar-nominated film An Education, and projects for the Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC and Ronnie Scott's.
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