"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
Current projects include a piece for the London Symphony Orchestra as part of the Panufnik scheme (to follow Joanna's LSO blog) and a short opera for the Jerwood Opera Writing Programme at Aldeburgh. She also looks forward to a Composer-in-Residence post at Aldeburgh in 2011/2012, composing a choral piece for Aldeburgh Music Club to celebrate their 60th Anniversary and Britten's Centenary.
Performances of Joanna's works include Tête á Tête, Jane Manning, CHROMA, Omar Ebrahim, Psappha, Joby Burgess, Orchestra of the Swan, Sarah Leonard, Britten-Pears Orchestra, Elysian Quartet and Robin Michael. Her work has been performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, Tête á Tête Opera Festival, BMIC Cutting Edge Series and Ultraschall Festival in Berlin, and she has attended the Britten-Pears Contemporary Composition and Performance Course, tutored by Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Magnus Lindberg.
Joanna works as music assistant to Paul Englishby, which has included the music for the Oscar-nominated film An Education, and projects for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Ronnie Scott’s and the BBC.
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