Joanna Wallfisch

In-Person Lessons

Joanna Wallfisch is an internationally acclaimed jazz vocalist and singer-songwriter. She has released six albums of original music and toured globally. Joanna is also a passionate educator, with over a decade of experience as a specialist in early childhood music education. When teaching, Joanna focuses not only on instilling in young people amazing musical skills and understanding but also on developing non-musical skills such as critical thinking, creativity, curiosity, collaboration, coordination, social-emotional understanding, and more. Joanna’s teaching style is joyful, patient, empathetic, and imbued with improvisation and playfulness.

She received her Bachelor of Arts from Central Saint Martins, London, and then completed a master’s degree in jazz vocals at the Guildhall School of Music, London. Between 2012 and 2017, she lived and performed in New York, where she performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and recorded two albums under her own name on Sunnyside Records. In 2017, she moved to Los Angeles, where she was a songwriting and vocal faculty member at LA College of Music and Jazz Choir Director at California School of the Arts, as well as recording on various movie score sessions.

In 2025, she moved with her husband and daughter to North Vancouver and is studying to become a Music Therapist at Capilano University. She sings regularly with the Vancouver Chamber Choir, is a faculty member with the Vancouver Extra Curricular Music Society, directing elementary school choirs and bands, and is a Mini-Music Maker teacher at the VSO School of Music.