Joseph Middleton

Recently described in The Times as ‘the cream of the new generation’, Joseph Middleton enjoys a busy and varied career as a chamber musician and accompanist.

A graduate of the University of Birmingham and the Royal Academy of Music, his competitive successes include the Accompaniment Prizes at the Wigmore Hall International Song, Kathleen Ferrier, Royal Over-Seas League and Richard Tauber Competitions. He was awarded the Lied-Pianist Prize at the Internationaler Schubert-Wettbewerb LiedDuo 2009 in Germany.

Joseph has given recitals with internationally established singers of the opera world, including Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Felicity Lott, Ann Murray, Joan Rodgers, Amanda Roocroft, Mark Padmore, Wolfgang Holzmair, Katarina Karnéus, Andrew Kennedy, Toby Spence, Geraldine McGreevy, Janice Watson, Sally Burgess, Stephen Varcoe and Jonathan Lemalu. He regularly collaborates with rising stars from the younger generation including Clara Mouriz, Katherine Broderick, Lucy Crowe, Allan Clayton, Ronan Collett, Anna Leese, Sophie Bevan, Robert Murray, and Catherine Hopper. Work with instrumentalists includes concerts with Alexander Baillie, Emma Johnson and Nicholas Daniel. He has devised programmes for Wigmore Hall, King’s Place, the National Portrait Gallery and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts.

In recent seasons he has appeared at major music centres including the Aix-en-Provence, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Oxford Lieder, Leeds Lieder+, Three Choirs and Ravinia Festivals. He gives frequent recitals at such venues as the Wigmore Hall, Royal Opera House, Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room, St. John’s, Smith Square, the Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, Bristol’s Colston Hall and The Sage Gateshead, as well as venues throughout Italy, Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Germany, France and the USA. Joseph has made numerous live broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and a CD of Spanish Songs with Clara Mouriz was released on the new Sonimage Label in 2010.

Engagements this season include recording a disc of Elgar songs with Dame Felicity Lott, a BBC broadcast with Andrew Kennedy from the Belfast Festival, Schwanengesang with Mark Padmore in Cambridge, a Mahler Lieder concert with Wolfgang Holzmair in London, a Brighton Festival recital with Christopher Maltman, a recital for the Toronto Summer Music Foundation with Sir Thomas Allen, and appearances at the Oxford Lieder, Brighton, Budleigh Salterton and Gower Festivals with Clara Mouriz. Other highlights include chamber music recitals in Scotland and at St John’s Smith Square and a recital at the Wigmore Hall (for his Geoffrey Parson’s Award Prizewinner’s Concert) with Julia Sporsén, Clara Mouriz, Allan Clayton and Ronan Collett.