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Joanna Forbes L'Estrange is a British singer, composer and choir director.

Background
She is the granddaughter of the Scottish viola player and arranger Watson Forbes and daughter of the composer and emeritus university music professor Sebastian Forbes, both of whom are listed in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. She is married to the composer, arranger and jazz multi-instrumentalist Alexander L'Estrange.

Singer
Joanna Forbes L’Estrange's career began with the A cappella vocal group The Swingle Singers as soprano and Musical Director. From 1998 until 2004 she led the group in concerts in North America, South America, Asia, Europe and Australasia. She appeared in three contemporary operas at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. She worked with musicians including the late Ward Swingle and Maestro Luciano Berio, whose orchestral work Sinfonia (Berio) she performs with orchestras worldwide.

As a soloist, she specialises in contemporary crossover music including Mass in Blue by Will Todd (recorded in 2019 for Convivium Records) and Sacred Concert (Ellington). She sings jazz with L’Estranges in the Night, the duo she co-founded with Alexander L'Estrange.

As an ensemble singer, she sings with London-based, professional vocal ensembles including London Voices - directed by Ben Parry (musician), Tonus Peregrinus (vocal ensemble) - directed by Antony Pitts and Synergy Vocals - directed by Micaela Haslam, performing Minimal music by Steve Reich and John Adams (composer). She has recorded over twenty CDs with Tenebrae (choir), directed by Nigel Short (singer). She records film soundtrack at London’s Abbey Road Studios. Her voice features on the soundtrack to the Wes Anderson 2021 film The French Dispatch in a duet with Jarvis Cocker.

Composer
Joanna Forbes L’Estrange is "one of the Royal School of Church Music’s best-selling composers". She was commissioned to compose an anthem to mark the coronation of King Charles III in May 2023. The mountains shall bring peace, a setting of Psalm 72, was performed by choirs across the UK.