Joanna Morton

Joanna Morton has been a vocal tutor at Bristol University for the past eight years and is much in demand as a singing teacher across the region.  Many of her former Bristol University students have gone on to postgraduate vocal training at the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall, Trinity and the Royal Welsh School of Music and Drama. Joanna also has current and former students in The Sixteen, The Monteverdi Choir and the BBC Welsh Singers.

In her own career, Joanna won the Fulbright program’s English Speaking Union Scholarship allowing postgraduate studies in the USA and was a student of internationally renowned vocal tutors, James McDonald and Constanza Cuccaro. Her training now benefits her students with strong emphasis on Alexander Technique and the bel canto tradition of beautiful, natural singing.  Whilst still a student, Joanna won the Early Music America Young Artist Competition.

Joanna became an Early Music specialist and has worked closely with Paul Hillier and lutenist Nigel North for many years. She has been engaged as a member of Hillier’s vocal group, ‘The Theatre of Voices,’ performing with the New World Symphony, Miami and Residente Orkest, Den Haag. Most recently the ensemble of four singers performed two critically acclaimed concerts at the 2007 Edinburgh International Festival, which were also broadcast on Radio 3. As part of this ensemble, Joanna has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, working directly with Arvo Pärt and Henryk Gorecki. As well as performing, Joanna has also been a music broadcaster for National Public Radio in the USA and the BBC in the UK.