Joanne Lunn studied at the Royal College of Music in London, where she was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal. Joanne's operatic engagements have included her ENO debut in Steven Pimlott's production of Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea conducted by Harry Christophers, the role of Helena in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream in Venice conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and directed by David Pountney, a tour of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in Spain and semi staged productions of Monteverdi's Orfeo in Paris and for the Beijing International Music Festival with Philip Pickett directed by Sir Jonathan Miller.

In concert, Joanne has performed in Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Sir Roger Norrington, for the Musik Podium Stuttgart conducted by Frieder Bernius, with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and with the LSO at the Barbican Hall. She has appeared as soloist in Messiah in the Halle Handel Festival, at St. Mark's Venice, and with Bach Collegium Japan conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, as well as in Handel's L'Allegro and Haydn's Heiligmesse, Harmoniemesse and Paukenmesse with the Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Her busy concert schedule has also featured Bach's Magnificat at the BBC Proms with the Academy of Ancient Music, and with Bach Collegium Japan, Rutter's Requiem with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer, Haydn's The Seasons with the Huddersfield Choral Society, Fauré's Requiem in Toulouse directed by Marc Minkowski, Bach Mass in B Minor with Bach Collegium Japan conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, with the Academy of Ancient Music in Alzenau and with Les Musiciens du Louvre and Minkowski, for the Akademie der alte Musik, and at the Sage, Gateshead. She has appeared in Mozart's Mass in C Minor for the City of London Sinfonia, Purcell's The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation and The Fairy Queen in Salzburg, Easter Oratorio with the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales under Nicholas Kraemer, Nelson Mass for the Ulster Orchestra, Rutter Mass of the Children at St Paul's Cathedral and at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Harmoniemesse for Scottish Chamber Orchestra, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato at the Handel Festival in Göttingen, The Creation at Cadogan Hall and Zelenka's Missa Votiva for Musik Podium Stuttgart, Mozart Exsultate Jubilate, Mahler 4th Symphony at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow.

Further concert performances have ranged from Saul with Cappella Amsterdam, to the first performances of J.C Bach's Mailänder Vesperpsalmen with Concerto Köln at the Frauenkirche, Dresden, Bach Cantatas with Le Concert Lorrain, Belinda Dido & Aeneas in Warsaw, Israel in Egypt with Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and St John Passion with Les Musiciens du Louvre (Minkowski).

She recently appeared at the Niedersächsische Musiktage and with Bach Collegium Japan, with programmes of Bach Cantatas, and also in Christmas Oratorio at the Tonhalle, Zürich (Masaaki Suzuki).

Joanne features as a soloist on many CD recordings. Her discography includes Vivaldi's Laudate Pueri with The King's Consort (Hyperion), Haydn Masses with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir (Philips), John Rutter's Mass of the Children with the City of London Sinfonia conducted by the composer (Collegium), Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Bach Cantatas cycle recorded during the Bach Pilgrimage in 2000 (Deutsche Grammophon/Soli Deo Gloria), Bach's Easter Oratorio with Frieder Bernius and the Stuttgart Kammerchor (Carus), Bach Motets with The Hilliard Ensemble (ECM) and Messiah with the RPO and John Rutter.

During the current season Joanne's engagements include concerts with the Academy of Ancient Music in Aldeburgh and Istanbul, The Fairy Queen in Rotterdam, Paris and Barcelona and Graun's Der Tod Jesu with Collegium Vocale. Looking ahead, she will perform Bach Secular Cantatas with Bach Collegium Japan,Saul with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and Messiah with the Mozarteum Orchester in Salzburg.