J S Bach B minor Mass Wells Cathedral Saturday, 10th November 2007

Joanne Lunn  (soprano)

JOANNE LUNN studied at the Royal College of Music in London, where she was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal. She performs around the world as a soloist with many of the leading early music groups including the English Baroque Soloists, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Musicians of the Globe, the New London Consort, the Academy of Ancient Music, The Hilliard Ensemble, Philippe Herreweghe’s Collegium Vocale Gent, The King’s Consort and The Gabrieli Consort. She appeared frequently as a soloist on Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s celebrated Monteverdi Choir Bach Cantatas Pilgrimage.
Joanne’s operatic engagements have included her ENO debut in Steven Pimlott’s production of Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea conducted by Harry Christophers, the role of Helena in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Venice conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and directed by David Pountney, a tour of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Spain and semi staged productions of Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Paris and for the Beijing International Music Festival with Philip Pickett directed by Sir Jonathan Miller.
Concert appearances have included Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Sir Roger Norrington, for the Musik Podium Stuttgart conducted by Frieder Bernius, with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and with the LSO at the Barbican Hall, Messiah in the Halle Handel Festival and at St. Mark’s Venice as well as Handel’s L’Allegro and Haydn’s Heiligmesse, Harmoniemesse and Paukenmesse with the Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Messiah in Spain and Portugal and Bach’s Magnificat at the BBC Proms with the Academy of Ancient Music, Rutter’s Requiem with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer, Haydn’s The Seasons with the Huddersfield Choral Society, Fauré’s Requiem in Toulouse directed by Marc Minkowski, Messiah, Bach Magnificat and Mass in B Minor with Bach Collegium Japan conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor for the City of London Sinfonia, Messiah in Stuttgart and Nantes, St Matthew Passion at the Bridgewater Hall, Purcell’s The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation and The Fairy Queen in Salzburg, Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Academy of Ancient Music in Alzenau and Easter Oratorio with the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales under Nicholas Kraemer. Nelson Mass for the Ulster Orchestra, Faure Requiem and Rutter Mass of the Children at St Paul’s Cathedral.
Joanne features as a soloist on many CD recordings. Her discography includes Vivaldi’s Laudate Pueri with The King’s Consort (Hyperion), Haydn Masses with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir (Philips), John Rutter’s Mass of the Children with the City of London Sinfonia conducted by the composer (Collegium), Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Cantatas cycle recorded during the Bach Pilgrimage in 2000 (Deutsche Grammophon/Soli Deo Gloria), Bach’s Easter Oratorio with Frieder Bernius and the Stuttgart Kammerchor (Carus) and Bach Motets with The Hilliard Ensemble (ECM).
Engagements in 2007/2008 include Belinda Dido & Aeneas at the Dubrovnik Festival, Messiah in Königslutter and at Leeds Town Hall, Bach Magnificat at St David’s Hall, Cardiff for BBC Wales, Harmoniemesse for Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Vivaldi Concerts on tour with the OAE, Mass in B Minor at Wells Cathedral and later on tour in Spain, St John Passion at Bath Abbey, Christmas Oratorio at Cadogan Hall and St Matthew Passion on tour with Musik Podium Stuttgart, Mass of the Children at Symphony Hall, Birmingham and Dixit Dominus for City of London Sinfonia.