Special thanks to teachers,
family and friends for their ongoing support.
Canadian composer, lyricist, and arranger Joanna Estelle has won the
critical acclaim of audiences from Ottawa’s Parliament Hill to London,
England and Barcelona, Spain. A longtime member of the Society of
Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada
(SOCAN), she now
also serves on the Board of Directors of the
Association
of Canadian Women Composers. As a child, she studied classical piano and basic
theory with the Royal
Conservatory of Music. Since then, she has
pursued studies in modern piano, advanced theory and arranging with
several well-known teachers and has often performed her own piano
pieces. Currently, she is a special student in the Department of
Music, University of Ottawa, studying with Steven Gellman. Her work
has also been arranged and orchestrated for performance and recording
by quality artists and choirs in Canada, the United States, and
Europe, as well as broadcast on CBC.
