She was awarded first place in the Dean & Chadlington Singing Competition (2019), the Brooks-Van der Pump English Song Competition (2013),  and was a semi-finalist in the Das Lied Competition (2019), the Nadia et Lili Boulanger International Voice-Piano Competition (2019). She has performed song cycles as a soloist with the Chroma Ensemble and the United Strings of Europe, and has performed with companies including Glyndebourne, Garsington, West Green and Opera de Tenerife.

Joanna graduated studied at Cambridge University, and completed a post-graduate course at the Royal College of Music. She was a Britten-Pears Young Artist, a Making Music Philip & Dorothy Green Young Concert Artist, and an Opera Prelude Young Artist.