Joanna Estelle

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.