Joanna Marsh

Joanna Marsh (born 1970) is a British composer of choral and orchestral works, who has lived in Dubai since 2007. Life and career Marsh studied composition with Richard Blackford and Judith Bingham. She was a student at the Royal Academy of Music between 1998 and 1999; Organ Scholar at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, between 1989 and 1992; and the School Organist at Christ’s Hospital between 1997 and 2000. Marsh was later appointed Composer in Residence at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 2015 for five years. During this time she wrote five works for the college choir and the college organ all of which feature on her album Sanctifica Nos: Choral and Instrumental Music by Joanna Marsh performed by the choir of Sidney Sussex College, Fretwork and Martin Baker, organ. Her earlier solo album, Flare released on Friday 18 September 2020, features music performed by the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London and the London Mozart Players. Marsh’s life in the Middle East offered many musical opportunities including writing an orchestral work to celebrate the building of the Burj Khalifa, a commission for the BBC Symphony Orchestra for t