London-born mezzo-soprano Joanne Evans is a graduate of the 2023 Merola Opera Program and the 2024 Académie of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, where she was awarded Le Prix des Amis for Voice.
The 2025–2026 season includes an appearance with the Ensemble intercontemporain at the Tokyo Spring Festival, for a performance of George Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill, as well as two mainstage appearances at Opera San Jose: Dorabella in Così fan tutte, followed by Flora in La traviata. She also returns to the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, in partnership with the Ear Taxi Festival, to present a concert of newly commissioned vocal music.
The 2026–2027 season includes leading roles with the Opéra Comique and English National Opera, and an appearance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 2024, she was a fellow at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, after which she traveled to Aldeburgh, England to join the Britten Pears Young Artist Program for contemporary composition. Joanne then attended the bel canto Voice Academy at Fondation des Treilles, and performed as Flora with Annapolis Opera. A Vocal Fellow at Music Academy of the West, Joanne sang the role of Olga in Eugene Onegin and was named winner of the Marilyn Horne Song Competition in 2022. Elsewhere, in 2022, Joanne placed first in the Handel Aria Competition and was a Boston District winner in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.
Last updated: 1st April 2026
