Joanna Forbes L'Estrange SINGER, COMPOSER, CHOIR DIRECTOR

About

I’m a London-based professional musician with 25 years of experience in contemporary vocal music as a singer, composer and choir director. I love my work and I’m lucky that it’s given me the opportunity to travel all over the world. After graduating with a Master of Arts degree in Music from Oxford University, I joined the five-time Grammy® Award-winning vocal group, The Swingles, as soprano and Musical Director. I now enjoy a varied career performing, recording, composing and directing contemporary vocal music.

I’m the third generation of professional musicians in my family - my grandfather, Watson Forbes, was a viola player and my father Sebastian Forbes is a composer and university music professor - so I grew up with music all around me. My husband Alexander L’Estrange is a composer and multi-instrumentalist and our two teenage sons love music too. Stay at Home - family lockdown video

Whether you’re looking for a crossover soloist for your concert or a workshop for your choir or maybe you need me to record a piece you’ve written or you’d like to commission me to write a piece, you’ve come to the right place. I look forward to making music with you.

Latest news

I’m very excited to tell you that my Heaven to Earth album is OUT on SIGNUM Classics (SIGCD790).