Joanna Forbes L’Estrange is the soloist for ‘Dear Esther LIVE’ with music by Bafta award-winner Jessica Curry
JANUARY
19th: Joanna is the solo vocalist for a performance of the award-winning video game, ‘Dear Esther’, soundtrack by Jessica Curry
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham BOOK TICKETS
20th: Joanna is the solo vocalist for a performance of the award-winning video game, ‘Dear Esther’, soundtrack by Jessica Curry
Usher Hall, Edinburgh BOOK TICKETS
21st: Joanna is the solo vocalist for a performance of the award-winning video game, ‘Dear Esther’, soundtrack by Jessica Curry
The Sage, Gateshead BOOK TICKETS
25th: Joanna is the solo vocalist for a performance of the award-winning video game, ‘Dear Esther’, soundtrack by Jessica Curry
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff BOOK TICKETS
26th: Joanna is the solo vocalist for a performance of the award-winning video game, ‘Dear Esther’, soundtrack by Jessica Curry
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall BOOK TICKETS
27th: Joanna is the solo vocalist for a performance of the award-winning video game, ‘Dear Esther’, soundtrack by Jessica Curry
The Anvil, Basingstoke BOOK TICKETS
FEBRUARY
1st: Joanna is the solo vocalist for a performance of the award-winning video game, ‘Dear Esther’, soundtrack by Jessica Curry
Colston Hall, Bristol BOOK TICKETS
2nd: Joanna is the solo vocalist for a performance of the award-winning video game, ‘Dear Esther’, soundtrack by Jessica Curry
Dome Concert Hall, Brighton BOOK TICKETS
MARCH
4th: WORLD PREMIERE on BBC Radio London of Give us Grace, a new setting for unaccompanied upper voices by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange of a Jane Austen prayer. Performed by members of Aurora Nova, conducted by Patrick Craig.
6th: Debut performance by AQUILA, Cambridge’s brand new all-female a cappella group, founded and directed by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange
8pm, The Old Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge, UK
8th: Special concert for International Women’s Day featuring music by female composers including the World Premiere of Joanna Forbes L’Estrange’s ‘Give us Grace’. Performed by Aurora Nova, conducted by Patrick Craig
7.30pm, St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London TICKETS
13th & 15th: Joanna and husband Alexander L’Estrange present their You can sing…but can you swing?! choral jazz workshop to Trinity College Chapel Choir, Cambridge, conducted by Stephen Layton
25th: Joanna runs a You can sing…but can you swing?! workshop for the Military Wives Choirs Defence Academy
Swindon, UK
APRIL
5th & 6th: Joanna presents choral pop/rock workshops for Mission Voix
Dijon, South France
14th, 15th & 16th: Joanna is one of eight soloists with London Voices in three performances of Luciano Berio’s iconic orchestral masterpiece, Sinfonia, performed by the Dresden Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov
8pm/11am/8pm, Dresden, Germany
21st & 22nd: Joanna is one of eight soloists with London Voices in two performances of Luciano Berio’s iconic orchestral masterpiece, Sinfonia, performed by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov
7pm, Gasteig Philharmonie, Germany TICKETS
MAY
3rd: Joanna runs a workshop with Amplify show choir, conducted by Rachel Mason, fellow judge on the Sky 1 TV show, Sing: Ultimate A Cappella
Bristol, UK
13th: The L’Estranges in the Night quintet performs at Jazz at Hampton
2.30-5pm, Hamptonne Country Life Museum, Jersey
Joanna and her jazz band playing for Jazz at Hamptonne, Jersey, May 2018
JUNE
2nd & 3rd: Star Trek in Concert LIVE from the Royal Albert Hall. Joanna performs two concerts with London Voices, conducted by Ben Parry
2.30pm & 7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, London UK BOOK TICKETS
12th: Joanna performs with Tenebrae, conducted by Nigel Short, Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles
8.30pm, Basilica de Saint Denis, Paris, France BOOK TICKETS
13th: Joanna performs with Tenebrae Consort their popular Sun, Moon, Sea & Stars programme of music by Bob Chilcott
9pm, Teatre de la ville, Auch, France BOOK TICKETS
18th: AQUILA, the all-female a cappella group of St John’s College, Cambridge, directed by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, performs at the May Week concert
St John’s College, Cambridge, UK
24th: Joanna is the soloist for ‘Dear Esther LIVE’, an interactive video game concert with score by Bafta-winning composer Jessica Curry
8.30pm, Amsterdam, Holland Festival BOOK TICKETS
JULY
6th: Joanna performs with Tenebrae, conducted by Nigel Short, and the Aurora Orchestra
7.30pm, St John’s Smith Square, London UK BOOK TICKETS
26th: Joanna is the soprano soloist for Will Todd’s ‘Mass in Blue’ with the Barts Chamber Choir conducted by Ivor Setterfield
7.30pm, Cadogan Hall, London UK BOOK TICKETS
AUGUST
14th – 18th: Joanna is a guest conductor for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain Girls’ Choir course. Programme to include songs composed and arranged by Joanna as part of ‘Women in song 2018‘.
Durham University, Durham UK
31st: Joanna is one of eight soloists from London Voices for a performance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov of Berio’s iconic masterpiece Sinfonia, composed 50 years ago.
Prom 65, 7pm, Royal Albert Hall, London UK BOOK TICKETS
5th: Joanna is the soloist for ‘Dear Esther LIVE’, an interactive video game concert with score by Bafta-winning composer Jessica Curry, for Musikfest Bremen
Bremen, Germany
17th: Joanna and husband Alexander L’Estrange present their You can sing…but can you swing?! choral jazz workshop to the Nonsuch Singers, conducted by Tom Bullard, ahead of their CD recording of Will Todd’s Mass in Blue
SEPTEMBER
24th: Berio’s Sinfonia
Joanna reunites with her former group The Swingles in a performance of Luciano Berio’s iconic orchestral masterpiece, Sinfonia.
Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy BOOK TICKETS
OCTOBER
12th: House Music
Joanna is the adjudicator for the House Music competition at Gresham’s School
Gresham’s School, UK
17th, 18th, 19th: Berio’s Sinfonia
Joanna sings with London Voices in three performances of Luciano Berio’s iconic orchestral masterpiece, Sinfonia, with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov
7.30pm Rudolfinum Dvorak Hall, Prague, Czech Republic BOOK TICKETS
20th: Sun, Moon, Sea & Stars
Joanna performs with Tenebrae Consort
7.30pm Lamberhurst, Kent, UK BOOK TICKETS
24th: A Walk with Ivor Gurney
Joanna performs with Tenebrae, featuring soloist Sarah Connelly
Wigmore Hall, London, UK BOOK TICKETS
27th & 28th: Mass in Blue
Joanna is the soprano soloist for a new CD recording of Will Todd’s Mass in Blue with the Nonsuch Singers, conducted by Tom Bullard, and the L’Estranges in the Night Trio
NOVEMBER
3rd: WORLD PREMIERE of FREEDOM! The Power of Song
40-minute work for SATB choir, unison children’s choir and quintet composed by Alexander L’Estrange and Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, commissioned by Jeremy Backhouse for Sailsbury Choral Society. The 5th in the highly popular series of community choral works of which Wassail! won the Music Teacher Best Classical Music Education Initiative in 2018
Winchester Cathedral, Winchester UK BOOK TICKETS
29th: World Premiere of Advent ‘O’ Carol by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange
Performed by Tenebrae
6pm St Bartholemew the Great, London UK (private event)
DECEMBER
Joanna performs with Tenebrae Consort:
2nd: Sun, Moon, Sea & Stars
5pm Villars-sur-Glane, Switzerland BOOK TICKETS
6th: Sun, Moon, Sea & Stars
Tirol, Italy BOOK TICKETS
7th: Sun, Moon, Sea & Stars
Ziegelhutte Appenzal, Switzerland BOOK TICKETS
12th: Christmas at Le Manoir
Joanna performs with Tenebrae
7pm Le Manoir aux Quatres Saisons, Great Milton, Oxfordshire (private event)
13th: A Very English Christmas
Joanna performs with Tenebrae
8pm King’s Place, London UK BOOK TICKETS
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