Joanna
Paul is a Graduate of the Royal College of Music, London and
holds Licentiates for organ performance and piano. She is also an
Associate of the Royal College of Organists. She
has held the posts of organist, teacher, soprano soloist and choral
conductor at St Vedast Church in London for ten years, and has also
formed a versatile children's choir known as the Bayswater Blasters.
Joanna's
career began in Singapore when she won several competitions as a pop
organist and played on radio and television shows. However, Joanna
first played in church at the age of twelve, when, with no notice,
she was pulled out of Sunday school to stand in for the regular organist
who had fallen ill. The organist never came back, and Joanna never
went back to Sunday school!
In
England, Joanna, while at the Royal College of Music, played at London's
Farm Street Church under her professor, Nicholas Danby. After
a period back in Singapore as Organist and and Choir Director of St.
Andrew's Cathedral, Joanna returned to Farm Street. Soon afterwards,
in 1988, she became a regular deputy organist at St. Paul's Cathedral,
playing the Sunday recital before evensong. Whilst at St. Paul's,
she also sang and played with the Wren Consort of Voices under the
directorship of Nigel Beavan.
Joanna
has given organ recitals in St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, and
while abroad has appeared at Cologne and Altenberger Cathedrals.
