Oratorio

Joanna and Alexander perform of all of the core works written for soprano and alto respectively by composers including Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell, Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, Poulenc, Britten, Orff and Rutter as well as various new works by contemporary composers such as William Hayward and David Gordon.

Joanna's repertoire also includes Carissimi's Jephthe, which she has performed in Oxford with Charivari Agréable, and Mahler's 4th Symphony, which she performed with the Surrey University Orchestra in Guildford. She and Alexander regularly work with choirs and choral societies thoughout the UK and have become favourites with many of these groups, being invited back year after year.

Opera

Joanna has appeared at the Chatelet in Paris and at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, in productions of works by the late Luciano Berio and contemporary composer, Azio Corghi. With the New Israeli Orchestra in Tel Aviv, she sung the part of the Princess in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges.

She works for Opera Unlimited, a company based in London which provides opera singers for engagements in and around London, and recently performed at the Twickenham Festival, singing duets from operas by Mozart, Puccini and Verdi. She has worked under theatre director Lynn Binstock, performing opera scenes from Massenet's Werther (playing Sophie) and Hansel & Gretel by Humperdinck (playing Gretel). Joanna has also played Belinda and Dido in Purcell's Dido & Aeneas.

Joanna and Alexander have performed and recorded with many of the world's leading ensembles specialising in Early and Contemporary Music; these include the Gabrieli Consort, Ex Cathedra, Tenebrae, Trinity Baroque, Polyphony, the Dunedin Consort, A Capella Portuguesa and Cappella Nova. They are both permanent members of eight-voice, award-winning ensemble Tonus Peregrinus.

Joanna also specialises in avant-garde repertoire of the 60s and 70s, performing works like A-Ronne and Sinfonia by Luciano Berio (the latter of which Joanna has performed numerous times with the world's leading orchestras) and Stockhausen's Stimmung. Besides singing in European languages, she has performed in Russian, including for Kurtag's Songs of Despair & Sorrow and the Rachmaninov Vespers.

World premieres have included Balancing the Books by Michael Nyman (City of London Festival, 2000) Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Pascal Zavaro (Radio France, 2001) and Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles (City of London Festival, 2005).

Joanna is much in demand as a session singer for radio, film, television and library music; she and Alexander are currently singing and arranging for BBC Television's Romantics, written and presented by Peter Ackroyd; they have twice appeared as members of the church choir on BBC Television's The Vicar of Dibley.

Joanna sang on the soundtracks for numerous films including Spy Game, Tomb Raider and Star Wars; she also collaborated with pop band Pulp on their album We Love Life and sang on the demo for Ecce cor meum by Sir Paul McCartney.

Joanna's solo recital repertoire reflects her vocal versatility, encompassing English song, Italian arias, German lieder, Music Theatre and jazz songs, cabaret numbers and contemporary pieces. She has given two recitals with pianist Julian Jacobson.

She and Alexander also give duet recitals performing, amongst other works, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and, by Alexander himself, a beautiful set of three songs entitled Love's Philosophy, recently published by Faber Music.