Joanna Paul who spent her last 32 years in Britain has now returned to Singapore to continue her career as Organist, Music Teacher, Soprano Soloist and Choral Conductor.

She is a Graduate of the Royal College of Music and holds Licentiates for Piano Teaching, Piano and Organ Performing,and is an Associate off the Royal College of Organist.
She studied piano with Peter Element and Nicholas Danby on the organ and was given an organ schorlarship. She later studied with Piet Kee, now retired organist of Alkmaar Church, also a scholar and composer from The Netherlands. She  also studied with  recital organist Dame Gillian Weir. She later studied singing under Marion Studholme, Margaret Kingsley, Anthony Hocking and Nigel Beavan.

Earlier in her younger days, Joanna studied in Singapore with Madam Fan Ching Ying, the late Mr. Douglas Tan and Mr Patrick Foo.

Joanna's versatility shows her ability to perform in various styles of music, as seen in her earlier years in Singapore when she won several competitions as a Pop organist including the 1st prizes in the SAFTI and Boys Town Talent Times competions. She  played for various opening ceremonies including the then Metro shopping Centre in Penang Road and appered on various radio & television shows including the new year radio show of ''hello 73'' & ''hello 74'' and on several TV series of ''The Music Makers''

She was Organist and Choir Director of St Andrew's Cathedral and St. Paul's Church in Singapore.  She gave numerous charity concerts from the age of 16 onwards for both the Anglican and Methodist churches in Singapore and Malaysia, performing at Victoria Concert Hall, The Esplanade Concert Hall as both organist and singer.

Back in England Joanna was a trainee singer and organist firstly with her theory professor, Derek Stevens at St. Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, and then with her organ Professor, Nicholas Danby at  London's  Farm Street Jesuit Church thus gaining her practical experiences in all her church choral singing and playing including Renaissance sacred music. She later became Organist and Music Director at St. Vedast Church for nearly 15 years where she directed  The St Vedast Singers, a quartet of professional singers and her own children's choir, The Baywater Blasters.

She later became a regular deputy organist at St Paul's Cathedral playing the half hour recitals before evensong. She was then invited to teach at the Cathedral's Choir School where she then founded and directed the The Day Boy and Probationer Choir. This choir performed for various prestigious Livery Companies and for the Old Bailey Carol services.

Whilst at St Paul's Cathedral, she sang and played the organ with the Wren Consort of Voices under the directorship of her vocal coach, Nigel Beavan. It was with this Consort( mainly made up of 6 of the male singers from the Cathedral and 2 sopranos) that Joanna played and sang, and later had an audience with the then Prime Minister of Britain, Lady Margaret Thatcher.
It was also with the Wren Consort that Joanna had the honour of singing at the Dutch Church in London for the Anglo-Dutch Tercentenary in the presence of Their Royal Majesties Queen Elizabeth and Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands.

Joanna has also given various Solo & Duet recitals and has appeared as soloist in performances of Masses & Oratorios including Mozart's Requiem,Bach's St John's and St. Matthew's Passions, Handel's Dixit Dominus, Haydn's masses including the Nelson Mass, Monteverdi's Vespers, Rossini's Messe Sollinelle and Mendelssohn's Elijah.
She also sang regularly for the BBC Morning Worship Programmes.
Joanna has given organ recitals St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and throughout the UK, as well as Canada, Norway, Belgium, France, Austria, Germany including Cologne and Altenberger Cathedrals. She was received very well with the press who described her as ''dynamic and virtuosic with much temperament''.
She was also invited by the now Archbishop of York, The Most Reverend & Right Honourable Dr. John Sentamu to play for him at the Lambeth Conference in the presence of HRH Prince Charles at Canterbury Cathedral.

Lastly, Joannna is now well known for her  work for charitable causes.
With a reputation for being able to bring out the best in the most unlikely pupil, Joanna foundered the Bayswater Blaster Choir comprising of all her piano & vocal students of mixed ages and abilities. It also gave the children the ability to progress faster and to know that they too can contribute to society with whatever amount of talent even though they were still at a developing stage. As a result the St Vedast Carol Sevices was described in the London Link as ''one of the most popular and unusual in any City Church''.

Together with her solo performances her choir has given numerous concerts for charities including UNICEF, a Bulgarian orphanage, the Christian Children's Fund, Childline, NSPCC, Helen House Hospice, London Infirmary Hospital, Epileptic Fund and numerous other causes .They also sang Mozart's Spatzenmesse in the presence of The Bishop of London and others to celebrate the Tercentenary of the Rebuilding of St Vedast Church after the Great Fire. The funds raised were for the teaching of music in the poor schools of the East End of London.

Back in Singapore and Malaysia she has also done concerts to raise money for the church extention at St Paul's Church and various other organisations like the The Centennial Scholarship Fund for the Tamil Methodist Church in Kuala Lumpur and The Leprosy Mission. She has also had the honour to perform in the presence of the President of the Republic of Singapore, His Excellency, Mr SR Nathan and Mrs. Nathan for the charity, The Quiet Places Project at St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore.
Their repertoire ranged from Bach, Beatles to Benjamin Britten  to musicals thus resulting in invitations to sing at corporate dinner functions at places like The Claridges Ballroom in London and at the British Travel Awards Ceremony.

Joanna's hard work has resulted in being mentioned in a book called The London City Churches by Leigh Hatts and P Middleton.
She is also the first Singaporean to record a classical organ CD and her Bayswater Blasters Choir CD Choral Fusions.