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Joanna Harries
@joannaharries.bsky.social
Mezzo-soprano from South Wales via NZ
www.joannaharries.com
💿New album 'Letters from Scandinavia' out 5 Sep
https://linktr.ee/Joannaharries
🎵 National Opera Studio young artist, RCS, RNCM
🌳 Co-founder SongPath
🎼 opera
🎹 song
🎶 music
🎭 theatre
'Letters from Scandinavia' was on BBC Radio 3 Breakfast this morning ☺️

You can listen to me & Sholto Kynoch perform Agathe Backer Grøndahl's "Til mit Hjertes Dronning" towards the end of the programme - a moonlit wander with a lover: 'To the Queen of My Heart' 🌙

🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
November 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on my music stand this morning 🎄 Revisiting some for the next month's concerts, plus a new one this year - Saint-Saëns "Oratorio de Noël"
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“This is an unusual and enchanting thing – not just an album but an embracing narrative experience…”

Thank you to Gramophone for this review of our album 'Letters from Scandinavia' 🥰

You can listen on all the music places or even buy a copy!

🎧 Listen here:
joannaharries.com/letters-from...
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Spent today recording with Ensemble Augelletti as part of our "Sonic Threads" sound installation for Barts Heritage 🎙️

You couldn't ask for a nicer or more talented bunch 🥰

(PS you can hear us live in the beautiful Great Hall at St Bart's Hospital on 12 Jan)

bartsnorthwing.org.uk/events/sonic...
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In just under a month we'll be performing this beautiful music at the @barbicancentre with @opera.rara & @bbcsymphonyorchestra after we record it in a few week's time 🎵🎭

It's a rare chance to hear the final 1921 'Paris' version of "La Rondine"!

www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Exploring Handel, Purcell & more with wonderful Ensemble Augelletti this morning for our Sonic Threads project in the newly restored North Wing at St Bart's Hospital.

We'll be recording a sound installation next month & you can watch us live on 12 Jan:
www.bartsnorthwing.org.uk/events/sonic-threads
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"I just wanted to say how wonderful the SongPath was today. A real treat and so grounding"🌳

What a lovely response to yesterday's SongPath in beautiful Brighton!

And thanks to Holly at BREMF for making this lovely - listen out for birdsong, Bach, Handel, apple wassails and a 13th century round🍁
October 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Love nature? Join us for our SongPath in beautiful Stanmer Park Nature Reserve in Brighton as part of the Brighton Early Music Festival this Saturday 18 October, 11am.

With me, Angela Hicks (soprano) & Adrian Butterflield (violin)

Tickets £5/£10

www.songpath.co.uk

@brightonemf.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Still on a high from our Letters from Scandinavia recital that kicked off this year's Oxford Song festival in the Holywell Music Room today!

It was such a joy to revisit this programme with pianist Sholto Kynoch after releasing our CD last month 🎵

#LettersFromScandinavia
October 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Last chance to catch mine and the brilliant @annatilbrook's recital of Italian song on the @opera.rara YouTube channel!

Songs by Rossini, Bellini, Uccelli & Donizetti - it's free to watch until the end of today.

📺 Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyY6...
September 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
SongPath is heading to the North East next summer for an uplifting and interactive afternoon of song in Durham's glorious Botanic Gardens, from the woodland garden to the wildflower meadow!

🌳 Sunday 21 June
🌻 1:30pm
🌷 Durham Botanic Garden
with Durham University MUSICON

www.songpath.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Since posting about my album my social media is now mostly this, and I'm not mad about it.

My favourite is skärgårdssill 🐟

(PS "Letters from Scandinavia" is available via all decent music purveyors 🤓)
September 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"Vivid storytelling...meticulously researched and brilliantly executed"

What a lovely surprise to hear myself on Radio 3! Thanks to Hannah French for featuring Letters from Scandinavia on Record Review & describing me as a "fervent evangelist for Scandinavian song"🥰

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
September 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It's today! Album release day is here for Letters from Scandinavia 💿🎉

You can listen on all the music places including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and Amazon Music etc. You can also order a beautiful, shiny CD, or buy a download of the album!

www.joannaharries.com/letters-from-scandinavia
September 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Exciting delivery today! Physical CD copies of "Letters from Scandinavia" arrive ahead of the full album release this Friday 5 September! 🎉💿

You can also hear me & @sholto.kynoch performing it live at @oxfordsong.bsky.social on 10 Oct

www.joannaharries.com/letters-from-scandinavia
September 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
302,539 steps over the past 5 days, walking the first half of the beautiful Coast to Coast path from St Bees to Kirkby Stephen through the Lake District & the Dales! 🥾

Approx 150km including Wainwrights Red Pike, High Stile, High Crag, Haystacks, Calf Crag, Gibson Knott, Helm Crag & Kidsty Pike 🏞️
August 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Join SongPath this autumn for an uplifting morning of song in the tranquil setting of Stanmer Park in Brighton 🌳🍂

With special guests Adrian Butterfield (violin) & Angela Hicks (soprano) 🎵

🌳 Sat 18 Oct
🪵 11am-1pm
🍄 Stanmer Park
🎵 £10
Brighton Early Music Festival

www.bremf.org.uk/event/songpa...
August 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Congratulating myself because I actually did a 'strength' workout 💪🏋️‍♀️ Normally I just run.

Suggested routines welcome! Especially something simple doable at home for general health...Googling produces lots that are trying to sculpt a "bubble butt" - but I need no help with the size of my arse 😂
August 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A song of heartbreak and revenge from the forests of Finland...🌲

Sibelius's "Kaiutar" from "Letters from Scandinavia" with pianist @sholto.kynoch

🎧Listen now on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube etc

💿Pre-order the album (out 5 Sep on @crdrecordsclassical)
www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...
August 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
...and more autumn dates:

🌳18 Oct
SongPath
Brighton Early Music Festival

🎭5 Dec
PUCCINI La Rondine (Suzy / Lolette)
Barbican Concert Hall
Opera Rara & BBCSO

Plus a new sound installation "Sonic Threads" for historic North Wing at St Bart's Hospital with Ensemble Augelletti

www.joannaharries.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
A few autumn dates...

🎼31 Aug
Opera Rara Salon Series: Italian Song recital
(Stream of our recital from May)

💿5 Sep
ALBUM RELEASE: Letters from Scandinavia
CRD Records

🎵10 Oct
Letters from Scandinavia
Oxford International Song Festival

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August 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Look out for the stream of mine & Anna Tilbrook's Italian song recital later this summer. Recorded back in May, feat. Rossini, Bellini, Uccelli & Donizetti

📺 31st August, 4pm on the @operarara.bsky.social YouTube channel

Read the Opera Rara newsletter here: ow.ly/O0hY50WpMsl
July 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
How much tea is too much tea...? (Asking for a friend)

Obscenely delighted with new glass jars for my ever expanding loose-leaf collection ☕🫖
July 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If you're dreaming of being by the sea in this weather, I've a song for you (about dreaming by the sea)🌊🐟🦀🐚🦐⛵

🎧 Listen to "Sildig" by Agathe Backer Grøndahl, the latest single from my album "Letters from Scandinavia" with pianist Sholto Kynoch

💿 Pre-order album:
www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...
July 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
So looking forward to kicking off the Oxford International Song Festival in the autumn with "Letters from Scandinavia" with the wonderful Sholto Kynoch (also celebrating our album, out on 5 Sep) 🎵🎉

Fri 10 October
1pm
Holywell Music Room, Oxford

oxfordsong.org/events/lette...
July 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM