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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.
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Season Highlights
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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
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Audio
- Strauss - Ständchen
- John Ireland - Earth’s Call
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Huw Montague Rendall & Joseph Middleton Recital
Leeds ConservatoireNov 2024Huw Montague Rendall has already generated much praise from colleagues who know their stuff and that he was accompanied by Joseph Middleton, whose playing reminds one more of Gerald Moore every time, made for an evening of sheer delight. From the very first bars of Schumann's Liederkreis (Op.24) we were conscious that we were in the presence of something very special indeed, namely the partnership of an exceptional pianist and a singer possessed of a richly nuanced and beautifully cultivated baritone. Those slightly hesitant notes which herald the deceptive hope of the first two lines were played with intense expressiveness, superbly foreshadowing the poet's disappointment. ‘Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen’ revealed the singer’s ability to present a dreamlike vision without undue sentimentality, aided by brilliantly pointed accompanying.
- Melanie Eskenazi, Music OMH
- 29 November 2024