Joanna Weeks completed her post-graduate diploma at Trinity College of Music, studying with Alison Wells, having previously graduated from Birmingham University with a BMus (Hons). On the stage, roles include Tosca, Violetta (La Traviata), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) Lady Billows (Albert Herring) and Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro). She also created the title role of Coleridge-Taylor’s newly-discovered opera Thelma with Surrey Opera, with whom she has toured several times to the open air Minack Theatre in Cornwall. Chorus contracts include the Royal Opera House, Opera North, Opera Holland Park, and Grange Park Opera.

On the platform Joanna has performed with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the St Magnus International Festival and as an international ambassador for the Concordia Foundation, premiering Verdi’s Requiem in Vietnam at Hanoi’s opera house. Concert repertoire also includes works by Rossini, Brahms and Mozart, along with Richard Strauss’s Vier letze Lieder, and she has sung solo at venues including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Worth Abbey, and Winchester and Canterbury Cathedrals, along with the rooftop of the National Theatre! Joanna collaborates regularly with a Victorian toy theatre company, sang many recitals aboard the good ship Minerva with Swan Hellenic in its last incarnation, and has worked extensively as a costumed interpreter at Kensington and Hampton Court Palaces.