Joseph Middleton

Joseph Middleton, described in the BBC Music Magazine as ‘a born collaborator … one of the brightest stars in the world of song and Lieder’, performs and records with many of the world’s finest singers in major music centres across Europe and North America. Recent and forthcoming appearances include those at London’s Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Royal Opera House, the Konzerthaus Vienna, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie Cologne, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Opera Bonn, New York’s Alice Tully Hall and at the Aix-en-Provence, Aldeburgh, Bath MozartFest, Brighton, Cheltenham, City of London, Edinburgh, Ravinia Chicago, Three Choirs, Toronto, Vancouver and West Cork festivals. Joseph has enjoyed concerts with internationally established singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Sophie Bevan, Allan Clayton, Sarah Connolly, Lucy Crowe, Iestyn Davies, Wolfgang Holzmair, Christiane Karg, Katarina Karnéus, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Lisa Milne, Clara Mouriz, Ann Murray, Mark Padmore, Joan Rodgers, Amanda Roocroft, Matthew Rose, Carolyn Sampson, Toby Spence, Ailish Tynan and Roderick Williams. Before studing the piano on an EMI Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, Joseph obtained an MPhil degree in Musicology from the University of Birmingham. He subsequently took up the post of Musician in Residence at Pembroke College Cambridge and works extensively for the BBC New Generation Artists scheme.