Johanna Doll was born in 1990 as the youngest child of composer Karl Maria Doll who gave her her first piano lessons when she was only three years old.

In 2000 she started taking piano lessons with Regina Doll-Veihelmann before studying under Claude-France Journès (University of Music and Performing Arts Munich) three years later.

At the age of 16, she was accepted as a pre-college student at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg and began her studies under Klaus Kaufmann.

In 2008 she was accepted as a piano student at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, where she studied under Franz Massinger and Thomas Böckheler and where she is now one of only a few Master of Arts students.

She has participated in Master classes by Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Michel Beroff, Anna Barutti, Erik Tawastsjerna and Oliver Kern and is the recipient of a Yehudi Menuhin "Live Music Now" scholarship.