Mr Joseph Middleton

The internationally acclaimed pianist Joseph Middleton specialises in the repertoire of chamber music and song. Following an AHRC funded MPhil at the University of Birmingham and EMI Scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, Joseph became the first accompanist to receive the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award, the UK’s most prestigious accolade for musicians.

Alongside the world’s finest singers, he appears at major music centres including Wigmore Hall, New York’s Lincoln Centre, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus and Muziekverein Wien, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Berlin BoulezSaal, Kölner Philharmonie, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Musée d’Orsay, Oji Hall Tokyo and Festivals in Aix-en-Provence, Aldeburgh, BBC Proms, Edinburgh, San Francisco, Heidelberger Frühling, Schubertiade Hohenems and Schwarzenberg, Soeul, and Vancouver. He has enjoyed partnerships with Sir Thomas Allen, Louise Alder, Ian Bostridge, Allan Clayton, Marianne Crebassa, Dame Sarah Connolly, Iestyn Davies, Angelika Kirchschlager, Dame Felicity Lott, Mark Padmore, Mauro Peter, Dorothea Röschmann, Kate Royal, Fatma Said and Carolyn Sampson.

Joseph Middleton is Director of Leeds Lieder, Musician in Residence and a Fellow of and Professor at the Royal Academy of Music. He frequently curates his own series for BBC Radio Three and his critically acclaimed and fast-growing discography have won him a Diapason D’or, Edison Award and Priz Caecilia.