Joanna Wallfisch

Joanna Wallfisch 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 is a British cellist, her mother Elizabeth Wallfisch an Australian baroque violinist, her brothers are film composer Benjamin Wallfisch and opera singer Simon Wallfisch. She studied fine arts at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Beaux-Arts de Paris, and received a master of music in jazz performance from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2011. In the same year she self published her debut album Wild Swan and moved to New York, where she collaborated with Sam Newsome, 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, crowdfunded 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 Pasadena, and offers music education for children. She holds European and Australian passports.

2006: Benjamin Wallfisch – Dear Wendy . Joanna Wallfisch, vocals. MovieScore Media
2011: Wild Swan, Bandcamp, self published
2015: Joanna Wallfisch With Dan Tepfer – The Origin Of Adjustable Things. Sunnyside Records
2015: song Satelite on Benjamin Wallfisch – Pressure . MovieScore Media
2016: Gardens in my Mind. Sunnyside
2017: Blood & Bone. Sea Gardens Publishing
2019: Far away from any place called home. Bandcamp, self published.
2022: session vocals for song Dawn FM on Dawn FM by The Weeknd. Republic Records