Joanna Wallfisch (born 1985 in

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) is a British-Australian singer-songwriter and jazz singer.

Life and career

Wallfisch grew up in London in a musical family. Her father

Raphael Wallfisch Raphael Wallfisch (born 15 June 1953 in London) is an English cellist. Background Wallfisch was born into a family of distinguished musicians; his father was the pianist Peter Wallfisch and his mother is the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisc ...

is a British cellist, her mother Elizabeth Wallfisch an Australian baroque violinist, her brothers are film composer

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and opera singer Simon Wallfisch. She studied fine arts at

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and

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, and received a master of music in jazz performance from

Guildhall School of Music and Drama The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music school, music and drama school located in the City of London, England. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz al ...

in 2011. In the same year she self published her debut album Wild Swan and moved to New York, where she collaborated with

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, and Dan Tepfer. Wallfisch released the albums The Origin of Adjustable Things in 2015 and Gardens in My Mind in 2016, and performed 16 solo shows on a bicycle tour from Portland to Santa Monica, subject of her book The Great Song Cycle. In 2020 Wallfisch released her 40 minute documentary The Great Song Cycle, Down Under about another bicycle tour in Australia,

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with $ 5.424. It was shown at the Flathead Lake International Cinemafest in Polson in 2021. In September 2022 Wallfisch premiered her song The Ship live on a tv morning show. Wallfisch teaches songwriting at a private music school in

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, and offers music education for children. She holds European and Australian passports.

Publications

Recordings

* 2006: ''Benjamin Wallfisch – Dear Wendy (Original Motion Picture Score)''. Joanna Wallfisch, vocals. MovieScore Media (MMS 06004) * 2011: ''Wild Swan'',

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, self published * 2015: ''Joanna Wallfisch With Dan Tepfer – The Origin Of Adjustable Things''.

Sunnyside Records Sunnyside Records is an American jazz record company and label initially established by François Zalacain in 1982 to release an album by pianist Harold Danko. Albums by Kirk Lightsey and Lee Konitz soon followed, beginning a sequence of releases ...

(SSC 1405) * 2015: song ''Satelite'' on ''Benjamin Wallfisch – Pressure (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)''. MovieScore Media (MMS 15025) * 2016: ''Gardens in my Mind''. Sunnyside (SSC 1455) *2017: ''Blood & Bone''. Sea Gardens Publishing (001) * 2019: ''Far away from any place called home''. Bandcamp, self published. * 2022: session vocals for song ''Dawn FM'' on ''Dawn FM'' by The Weeknd.

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(00602445021154)

Bibliography

* 2019: ''The Great Song Cycle'' ISBN 978-1-76080-095-6

Filmography

* 2020: ''The Great Song Cycle, Down Under''

External links

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallfisch, Joanna 1985 births Living people 21st-century British musicians British women singer-songwriters British jazz singers Australian jazz singers British women jazz singers Australian women jazz singers