World Premiere – Liverpool Philharmonic Youth and Children’s Choirs

Performance Date: March 24, 2024 Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choirs will perform the world premiere of Joanna Marsh’s A Plastic Theatre, with text by Katie Schaag (24 March), joining voices of youth choirs across the world. Conducted by Ellie Slorach, the work examines the damaging effects of plastic on our earth.  This has been commissioned by Liverpool Philharmonic in a consortium with other…

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BBC Proms Debut!

https://operawire.com/lise-davidsen-thomas-hampson-jeanine-de-bique-magdalena-kozena-lead-bbc-proms-2023-season/

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Upcoming Performances

Vox Urbane - Sunday, 16th April 2023 Brand-new choir Vox Urbane perform my music in their debut concert in Peckham. Wigmore Hall - Saturday, 16th September 2023 United Strings of Europe perform Another Eden and the string arrangement of In Winter's House, alongside works by Errollyn Wallen, Lili Boulanger, Nadia Boulanger, and Osvaldo Golijov with Soprano Ruby Hughes.

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Thank you!

Thanks for confirming you'd like to stay in touch. Take a look at my scores here, or watch a few of my latest works, performed by Tenebrae and ORA Singers below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSRxuKAeYX0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FjwmozxuWY

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Musica Secreta Album Review

"Marsh deftly incorporates contemporary harmonies and expanded ranges while using the resources of Musica Secreta is a way consistent with their approach on the rest of the recording; organ accompanies them and the alternation of textures creates a connection between old and new." https://www.sequenza21.com/2023/01/mother-sister-daughter-musica-secreta-sings-the-stories-of-women-cd-review/

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Front page feature on Gulf News

Two features on Gulf News this week! Firstly a front page feature for my Ivor Novello Composer Award win, and secondly on Gulf Today for ChoirFest (co-founded by me in 2013), launching in the UAE this year! Read more here.  

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Sounds from the desert

During New Year’s Eve fireworks at Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, British composer Joanna Marsh watched in During New Year’s Eve fireworks at Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, British composer Joanna Marsh watched in During New Year’s Eve fireworks at Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, British composer Joanna Marsh…

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Composer flying in for music premiere at York Barbican

Joanna Marsh, who once played violin with York’s Guildhall Orchestra, as well as  Joanna Marsh, who once played violin with York’s Guildhall Orchestra, as well as  Joanna Marsh, who once played violin with York’s Guildhall Orchestra, as well as  Joanna Marsh, who once played violin with York’s Guildhall Orchestra, as well as  Joanna Marsh, who once played violin with…

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Meet the Artist

Who or what inspired you to take up composing, and pursue a career in music? I think it was watching ‘Young Musician of the Year’ on our black and white telly in the 1970s ignited my competitiveness and made me get on and do some practice. Although much of that ‘practice’ was improvising and composing because that is what…

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Sounds from the desert

During New Year’s Eve fireworks at Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, British composer Joanna Marsh watched in “open-mouthed awe”. Soon after taking up residence in the Gulf emirate in 2007, she had written The Tower, a choral work for the BBC Singers that likened Dubai’s soaring needle to the hubristic Tower of Babel. Yet when…

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