Mezzo soprano Joanna Harries was a choral scholar at the University of Cambridge before training at the Royal Northern College of Music, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the National Opera Studio. She is a City Music Foundation artist 2024-26, and a former Opera Prelude Young Artist, Britten Pears Young Artist and Handel House Talent Artist.
Season highlights include the release of her album Letters from Scandinavia, with Sholto Kynoch; appearances at the Oxford International Song Festival and Brighton Early Music Festival; Suzy/Lolette in La rondine (Opera Rara); and Alice Bragg Rosalind (Helix Music).
Her operatic roles stretch from baroque to contemporary and in recent seasons she has performed Medoro Orlando (Buxton International Festival); Prince/Stepmother Little Listeners:Cinderella (Opera North); Lucinda La forza dell’amor paterno (Barber Opera); Contessa Ceprano Rigoletto (Opera Holland Park), Deborah Robinson Crusoe (West Green House Opera); and Tweedledee Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (IF Opera).
As concert soloist Joanna has performed Bach Christmas Oratorio (Snape Maltings); Macmillan Seven Last Words From The Cross (BBC Philharmonic); Bach Easter Oratorio (Bach Festival Świdnica, Poland); Handel Messiah (Lincoln Cathedral); Haydn Theresienmesse (Chester Cathedral); and Beethoven Symphony No.9 (Sheffield Cathedral).