JosephMiddleton
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About Joseph
Joseph Middleton is Director of Leeds Lieder, Musician-in-Residence at Pembroke College Cambridge and a Professor and Fellow at his alma mater, the Royal Academy of Music.
The 24/25 season sees Joseph partner artists including Veronique Gens, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Ian Bostridge, Dame Sarah Connolly, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Huw Montague Rendall, Roderick Williams, Florian Boesch, Christoph Prégardien, Carolyn Sampson and James Newby in recital. With Louise Alder and Mauro Peter he performs Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch in Wigmore Hall, Frankfurt Oper, Vienna Musikverein, Barcelona, Leeds and Cambridge. To celebrate the launch of Fatma Said’s new Lied Album for Warner records he accompanies her in a tour across Europe that includes the Wigmore Hall, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Paris Louvre, Linz, Oslo, Munich, Aix-en-Provence and Hanover. Joseph also returns to the Berlin BoulezSaal and Schubertiade Schwarzenberg with Sophie Rennert and his recording projects include an ongoing 5-album set of Mahler Lieder for Signum Records and Wolf Lieder for BIS Records
In recent seasons, Joseph has appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall, Royal Opera House and Royal Festival Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw, Köln Philharmonie, Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Lille and Gothenburg Opera houses, Berlin Boulez Saal, Paris Musée d’Orsay, Zürich Tonhalle, deSingel Antwerp, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Bozar Brussels, Tokyo’s Oji Hall and New York’s Alice Tully Hall. He regularly appears at festivals in Aix-en-Provence, Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Hohenems, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Ravinia, Japan, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver as well as the BBC Proms.
Joseph enjoys partnerships with many internationally-established singers. In 2023/24 he returned to the Life Victoria Festival Barcelona, where he was the 22/23 Artist-in-Residence, with Miah Persson and Dame Sarah Connolly. Further appearances with Dame Sarah included performances in Seville, Amsterdam, and at the Wigmore Hall. He joined Sir Simon Keenlyside in Cambridge; Louise Alder in Vienna and London; Fatma Said in Vienna, Dortmund, Amsterdam, and at London’s Barbican Centre; Carolyn Sampson in Amsterdam, Zeist and London; and Katharina Konradi at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, Vilabertran and at the Wigmore Hall where he also partners Iestyn Davies, Nicky Spence, Mary Bevan, James Newby, Ashley Riches, and Ruby Hughes.
His fast-growing discography on Harmonia Mundi, BIS, Chandos and Signum Records have won him a Diapason D’or, Edison Award, Prix Caecilia as well as numerous Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine Award nominations.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
Joseph Middleton & Samuel Hasselhorn perform Schubert Erlkönig D. 328
Credit: harmonia mundi music
PlayingJoseph Middleton & Katharina Konradi perform Tchaikovsky Serenade
Credit: Wigmore Hall
PlayingJoseph Middleton & Louise Alder performance Florence Price Night
Credit: Wigmore Hall
PlayingJoseph Middleton & Dorothea Röschmann perform at Leeds Lieder Festival
Credit: Leeds Lieder Festival
PlayingJoseph Middleton & Sophie Rennert perform Schubert Schwestergruß D762
Credit: Schubertiade Schwarzenberg
PlayingJoseph Middleton & Dame Sarah Connolly perform Mahler Urlicht
Credit: Leeds Lieder Festival
PlayingJoseph Middleton & Ian Bostridge perform an excerpt from Schubert Die Winterreise
Credit: Leeds Lieder Festival
Playing
Audio
- Strauss - Ständchen
- John Ireland - Earth’s Call
Photos
News
Press
Veronique Gens & Joseph Middleton Recital
Prestonkirk Parish Church, East LintonSep 2024Moreover, Middleton’s playing was the perfect accompaniment throughout, flirtatious in Gounod’s Où voulez-vous aller? or fluttering delicately for the butterflies of Chausson’s Les Papillons. His piano line at the end of Fauré’s Le Papillon et la fleur did such a convincing impression of a bee buzzing off that it made Gens break into a chuckle.
- Simon Thompson, Bachtrack
- 10 September 2024
Her accompanist was the incomparable Joseph Middleton... He plays both sensitively and dramatically, and it was clear from the beginning that the two performers had a terrific rapport with each other... Ms Gens captured the glorious Frenchness of the sentiment and the poetry, and poured out waves of ravishing sounds, always faithfully partnered by the stylish playing of Mr Middleton.
- Brian Bannatyne-Scott, Edinburgh Music Review
- 11 September 2024
...on this occasion her accompanist was Joseph Middleton – the guru of another leading festival, Leeds Lieder. Their partnership was as impressive as you’d expect, piano and voice interweaving in this selection of music from La Belle Epoque.
- Melanie Eskenazi, Music OMH
- 10 September 2024