Joanna Levine

Joanna Levine studied cello and viola da gamba at the Guildhall School of Music, learning with Raphael Wallfisch, Anthony Pleeth and Sarah Cunningham.  She is a founder member of Concordia, with whom she has made recordings for Hyperion, Chandos, Metronome, Signum and Real World Records, as well as for BBC, and was was thrilled to join Fretwork in 2017.  Joanna has played in many productions at the Globe Theatre, including ‘Farinelli and the King’, which transferred to the West End, and ‘All the Angels’, a play about Handel’s Messiah.  She particularly enjoy the creative processes involved and the chance to work with composers, directors and actors such as Mark Rylance and Simon Slater.   Joanna has also collaborated with the photographer Mandy Jandrell, composing and performing music for her installation The Blue Hour.  She also enjoys playing the viol solos in the John and Matthew Passions, the Times commented ‘for the sheer power of non-verbal expression, Joanna Levine’s viola da gamba solo took some beating’.