Described as ‘a brilliant light in the music world,’ Joanna MacGregor CBE is one of the world's most innovative musicians, appearing as a concert pianist, curator and conductor. As Dame Myra Hess Chair of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and Professor of University of London, she runs an international piano department of young pianists from all over the world, many of whom have gone on to great success in major competitions like Van Cliburn, Leeds and Sydney International Piano Competitions, representation by Young Concert Artists Trust and busy international careers. She runs two annual Piano Festivals at the Royal Academy of Music, and also curates a year-round series at the Wigmore Hall for Academy pianists.

As a solo artist Joanna has performed in over eighty countries and appeared with many eminent conductors – Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev, Sir Simon Rattle and Michael Tilson Thomas amongst them – and orchestras, including the London Symphony and Sydney Symphony orchestras, Chicago, Melbourne and Oslo Philharmonic orchestras, Berlin Symphony Orchestra and Salzburg Camerata. She has premiered many landmark compositions, and performs regularly at major venues throughout the world, including Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre and Barbican Centre in London, Sydney Opera House, Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Here 2020 cycle of the complete Beethoven Sonatas in Canterbury was followed in 2023 by an immersive series of Schubert recitals. The 2024-25 season sees her performing in Europe and Scandinavia, China, Australia, Canada and the US.