Joanna Bailie was born in London in 1973 and has been living in Brussels since 2001. She studied composition with Richard Barrett, electronic music at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Holland and in 1999 won a fellowship to study at Columbia University. Her recent work includes chamber music, installation and music theatre and is characterized by the use of field recordings together with acoustic instruments. Her music has been performed by groups such as Ensemble Musikfabrik, Exaudi, The Nieuw Ensemble, Apartment House, The London Sinfonietta, L'instant Donné and the Ives Ensemble. She has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on many occasions and programmed at events such as the Venice Biennale, Huddersfield, SPOR Festival, Festival Reims Scènes d'Europe, the Borealis and Ultima festivals in Norway and the Transit festival in Belgium. In May 2010 she was the guest curator at the SPOR Festival in Aarhus, Denmark. Together with Matthew Shlomowitz she runs Ensemble Plus Minus.