The piece Evening Prayer was released on Tenebrae's 2025 album A Prayer for Deliverance alongside works by Caroline Shaw, Cecilia McDowall and Joel Thompson.
about Joanna Marsh
Biography
Joanna Marsh has been hailed by The Guardian as ‘one of today’s leading composers for the voice’. She has an extensive catalogue of music which includes In Winter’s House, which she wrote to a commission for Tenebrae, and a celebrated triptych of anthems composed for The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge.
Her BBC Radio 3 commission, Flare, was performed at the BBC Proms in 2022 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and SEEN, for choir and electronics, was performed by the BBC Singers as part of the 2023 BBC Proms. Her 2020 solo album, Flare, features music performed by the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players, and The Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2021 The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, released an album of her choral music on the conclusion of her five year composer residency. In 2022 she won the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for Choral Music with All Shall Be Well.
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Lament & Liberation
Joanna's choral triptych Echoes in Time was released as a part of the album Lament & Liberation by the Choir of St. John's College Cambridge, directed by Christopher Gray.
A Psalm for Chichester
A Psalm for Chichester was commissioned by Chichester Cathedral for their 950th anniversary. The piece was intended as a companion piece to Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, which also premiered at the cathedral. The work premiered on May 17, 2025 at Chichester Cathedral.
