West Wight Arts Association

 

Recently described in The Times as ‘the cream of the new generation’ and praised for playing with ‘strength, variety and beauty’, 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 recently 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, as well as rising stars from the younger generation. Recent and forthcoming performances see him collaborating with Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Felicity Lott, Ann Murray, Joan Rodgers, Amanda Roocroft, Wolfgang Holzmair, Mark Padmore, Katarina Karnéus, Andrew Kennedy, Toby Spence, Geraldine McGreevy, Jonathan Lemalu, Clara Mouriz, Katherine Broderick, Lucy Crowe, Sally Burgess, Allan Clayton, Ronan Collett, Anna Leese, Sophie Bevan, Robert Murray, Catherine Hopper, Janice Watson and Stephen Varcoe. 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.

www.josephmiddleton.com