Joélle Harvey's most recent appearance with the North Carolina Symphony was as soloist for Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in Raleigh and Chapel Hill, conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto in 2022.

Joélle Harvey began the 2023/24 season with an appearance at London’s Wigmore Hall, singing the role of Tirsi in Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno; engagements also include Handel’s Messiah, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Handel & Haydn Society, and Fauré’s Requiem, with the National Symphony Orchestra. Season debuts include the Houston Symphony and New World Symphony.

In the 2022/23 season, Harvey joined the New York Philharmonic as the soprano soloist in a gala performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, celebrating the opening of David Geffen Hall and conducted by Jaap van Zweden. She debuted with the Bamberger Symphoniker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and Minnesota Orchestra. The season also held returns to The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and Metropolitan Opera.

A native of Bolivar, New York, Harvey received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in vocal performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). She began her career training at Glimmerglass Opera (now The Glimmerglass Festival) and the Merola Opera Program. Her awards include a First Prize Award from the Gerda Lissner Foundation and a Sara Tucker Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation. She is a recipient of the Shoshana Foundation’s Richard F. Gold Career Grant.