Joseph Middleton

Internationally acclaimed pianist Joseph Middleton specialises in the repertoire of chamber music and song. He is Director of Leeds Lieder, Musician in Residence and a Bye-Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge and a Fellow of and Professor at his alma mater, the Royal Academy of Music. 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. He frequently curates his own series for BBC Radio and his critically acclaimed and fast-growing discography has won him the Diapason D’or, Edison Award and Priz Caecilia. He was the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist of the Year Award in 2017, to date the only accompanist to be honoured in the Society’s history