Joseph Middleton   
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Pianist Joseph Middleton specializes
in the art of song accompaniment and
chamber music and has been highly
acclaimed in this field. Described in
Opera Magazine as ‘the rightful heir to
legendary accompanist Gerald Moore’,
by BBC Music Magazine as ‘one of the
brightest stars in the world of song and
Lieder’, he has also been labeled ‘the
cream of the new generation’
by The Times. He is Director of Leeds
Lieder, Musician in Residence and
a Bye Fellow at Pembroke College,
Cambridge and a Fellow of his alma
mater, the Royal Academy of Music,
where he is also a Professor. He was
the first accompanist to win the
Royal Philharmonic Society’s
Young Artist Award.
Joseph is a frequent guest at major
music centres including London’s
Wigmore Hall (where he has been a
featured artist), Royal Opera House
and Royal Festival Hall, New York’s
Alice Tully Hall and Park Avenue
Armory, Het Concertgebouw
Amsterdam, Konzerthaus and
Musikverein Vienna, Zürich Tonhalle,
Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Berlin
BoulezSaal, Kölner Philharmonie,
Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Lille and
Gothenburg Opera Houses, Baden-
Baden, Philharmonie Luxembourg,
Musée d’Orsay Paris, Oji Hall Tokyo
and Festivals in Aix-en-Provence,
Aldeburgh, Barcelona, Schloss Elmau,
Edinburgh, Munich, Ravinia, San
Francisco, Schubertiade Hohenems
and Schwarzenberg, deSingel, Soeul,
Stuttgart, Toronto and Vancouver.
He made his BBC Proms debut in
2016 alongside Iestyn Davies and
Carolyn Sampson and returned in
2018 alongside Dame Sarah Connolly
where they premiered recently
discovered songs by Benjamin Britten.
Joseph enjoys recitals with
internationally established singers
including Sir Thomas Allen, Louise
Alder, Mary Bevan, Ian Bostridge,
Allan Clayton, Dame Sarah Connolly,
Marianne Crebassa, Iestyn Davies,
Fatma Said, Samuel Hasselhorn,
Christiane Karg, Katarina Karnéus,
Angelika Kirchschlager, Dame
Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman,
John Mark Ainsley, Ann Murray DBE,
James Newby, Mark Padmore, Mauro
Peter, Miah Persson, Sophie Rennert,
Ashley Riches, Dorothea Röschmann,
Kate Royal, Carolyn Sampson, Nicky
Spence and Roderick Williams.
He has a special relationship with
BBC Radio 3, frequently curating his
own series and performing alongside
the BBC Radio 3 New Generation
Artists. His critically acclaimed and
fast-growing discography has seen
him awarded a Diapason D’or, Edison
Award and Priz Caecilia as well as
receiving numerous nominations for Gramophone, BBC Music Magazines and International Classical Music Awards. His interest in the furthering of the song repertoire has led Gramophone Magazine to describe him as ‘the absolute king of programming’.
