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Described by Downbeat Magazine as\\xa0"an\\xa0exquisite\\xa0singer-songwriter",\\xa0Joanna\'s music conveys a beauty of a many-coloured sort that speaks to straight to the human condition.\\xa0Her\\xa0songs\\xa0reveal\\xa0personal\\xa0truths about\\xa0love, loss,\\xa0adventure,\\xa0home and hope. World Music Report described\\xa0it as\\xa0"quintessential\\xa0heart-music\\xa0by\\xa0a vocalist who seems to have connected with the deepest recesses of her being emerging into brightness again with songs of haunting beauty."

Joanna is a master in the art of live vocal looping and as a multi-instrumentalist plays baritone ukulele, piano, flute, Indian shruti box, kalimba and melodica. Her music defies genre classification as she effortlessly imbues her songs with nuances of jazz, classical, art-song, and folk, carrying her "clear-eyed poetry" (Boston Globe) and "striking vocals" (Hothouse). Her songwriting extends beyond just lyrics and melody - Joanna also arranges for ensembles including string quartets, winds, a cappella voices and more.\\xa0

Joanna\'s career has taken her around the globe. \\xa0She first studied\\xa0to be a\\xa0painter\\xa0at Central Saint Martins, London.\\xa0This\\xa0led her to\\xa0Paris,\\xa0where she sang on the bridges of the Seine with the "Rene Miller Wedding Band". Following this formative time she did a masters in\\xa0jazz\\xa0at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.\\xa0\\xa0In 2012 she moved to\\xa0New York City\\xa0where she forged an indelible musical path, appearing and collaborating with musicians including\\xa0Dan Tepfer, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Werner, Sam Newsome, Lee Konitz, to name a few. She released her debut album,\\xa0Wild Swan,\\xa0in 2011, featuring\\xa0Joe Martin, Sam Newsome, Rob Garcia and Art Hirahara. In 2015 she signed with\\xa0Sunnyside Records\\xa0who released\\xa0The Origin of Adjustable Things,\\xa0an intimate duo project with pianist\\xa0Dan Tepfer. As a follow up to this success she recorded\\xa0Gardens In My Mind, her third album of self-penned songs and arrangements, featuring the award winning string ensemble The Sacconi Quartet, and Dan Tepfer on piano. In 2018 she self-released her fourth record, Blood and Bone, which London\\xa0Jazz said,\\xa0"overflowed with creativity and musical resources."\\xa02019 marks the release of her fifth record entitled\\xa0Far Away From Any Place Called Home.\\xa0

The Great Song Cycle:\\xa0An adventurer at heart, in August 2016 Joanna embarked on a solo concert tour of the West Coast of the USA, by bicycle. Over the course of 1,154 miles she performed 16 solo shows between Portland and Los Angeles carrying her instruments, camping gear, and everything else she needed upon her bike. In her inimitable way she turned this once-in-a-lifetime experience into a 60-minute song-cycle, a recorded album and a memoir. She has performed the live piece in theatres including: National Sawdust, NYC, Boston Court Performing Arts Centre, LA, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK, Phoenix Theatre, UK and Joe\'s Pub, NYC. In June, 2019 Joanna celebrates the release of her fifth album Far Away From Any Place Called Home, and her debut memoir "The Great Song Cycle; Portland to Los Angeles on Two Wheels and a Song", which is being published by Australian Publishers\\xa0UWA Press.