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  Joanna Lee is a freelance composer and arranger.

Performances of her works include 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. Her 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. Joanna's whippoorwill for voices was shortlisted for a British Composer Award in 2007.

 

Joanna is studying for a PhD specialising 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