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Recently described by 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. Born in Gloucestershire, Joseph graduated with an MPhil from the University of Birmingham before studying piano at the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Dussek and Malcolm Martineau. While at the Academy, he was generously supported by a scholarship from EMI. Graduating with Distinction, he was also awarded the DipRAM, the Academy’s highest award for postgraduate study, and was subsequently appointed the Hodgson Junior Fellow. In October 2006 he took up the post of College Musician at Pembroke College Cambridge.

Joseph’s competition successes include the Accompanist’s Prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition, Kathleen Ferrier Awards and Royal Over-Seas League Competition. He has also won the Yamaha Birmingham Accompanist of the Year, Geoffrey Parsons Memorial Award and Wingate, Tillett Trust, Caird, MBF and AHRC Scholarships. He has appeared with some of the most outstanding soloists of his generation, at UK festivals including the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Three Choirs, Norwich and Norfolk and Oxford Lieder, as well as in Italy, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Germany and France. He has made live broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and, with Caryl Hughes has recently been invited to feature on Classic FM’s Music Makers Programme.

Joseph has made a number of significant debuts in the past few seasons, including recitals at 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 Bruckner-Konservatorium in Austria. As a chamber musician, Joseph won the Max Pirani Prize for Piano Trio while at the RAM, and was invited to represent the UK in the ‘European Prize for Piano Trio 2003’ held in Austria, in which he took Second Prize.

Joseph’s recent and future performances with singers include recitals with BBC New Generation Artists Allan Clayton and Ronan Collett, as well as appearances with Katherine Broderick, Sally Burgess, Katarina Karnéus, Andrew Kennedy, Anna Leese, Ann Murray DBE, Robert Murray, Benedict Nelson and Joan Rodgers. He returns to Wigmore Hall in the coming seasons with Clara Mouriz (for the Kirckman Concert Society) and in 2008 with Catherine Hopper (Maisie Lewis winners – Monday Platform). In 2007 he was selected for participation in Graham Johnson’s Young Songmakers’ Almanac and for the Park Lane Group Series in the Purcell Room. He will work with Amanda Roocroft in 2008 for the Samling Foundation at The Sage, Gateshead as their inaugural Pianist Scholar. Work with instrumentalists includes concerts with violinists Ruth Palmer, Hideko Udagawa and Alexandra Wood, cellist Gemma Rosefield and oboe player Nicholas Daniel.

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