Johanna spent much of 2005 as a consulting editor for the NPR Listener’s Encyclopedia of Classical Music, editing and ghost writing entries. In 2006 she did a stint as a classical music host for WNYC-FM radio in New York City. She also lent her voice to the score for a PBS documentary, He Who is Blessed, for which she recorded a Bach aria and a 13th-century English plainchant.
Having greatly enjoyed heading the research and programming for Anonymous 4’s program, Wolcum Yule, she is now delving further into the world of British Isles traditional music, working with harpist Alyssa Reit on a program of folk songs from Britain. Other singing projects include an engagement as soprano soloist in Bach’s Magnificat at the Community Unitarian Church, White Plains, in December 2007.
Johanna has just joined the voice faculty of the Music & Art Academy in Morganville, NJ, where she will work with private voice students and small ensembles. In the fall of 2007 she will present a lecture/demonstration and coach vocal ensembles at Long Island University (C. W. Post). Coaching vocal, instrumental, and mixed ensembles is of great interest to her, and she is available to college or community based ensembles.
Having studied violin for several years as a youngster, she has “borrowed” her mother’s violin, and (just for fun) is learning to play fiddle, emphasizing Celtic and Anglo-American tunes. She hopes to gain enough proficiency to play in public one day!
In addition, she is developing several children’s book ideas that have been rattling around her head for several years.