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December 2009 - V&A and National Gallery performances: Joseph partners Sir Thomas Allen and singers from the Benjamin Britten International Opera School in recital at the V&A before accompanying Clara Mouriz in a selection of Spanish Canciones to compliment the National Gallery’s exhibition – The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Paintings and Sculpture 1600-1700. A couple of days before Christmas he gives a recital with mezzo Katherine Allen at The Forge in Camden of songs by Brahms, Barber, Quilter and Weill, with Christmas themed songs by Michael Head, Britten and Franck.

November 2009 – Joseph gives a recital with Joan Rodgers CBE, performing music by Tchaikovsky, Poulenc, Gounod, Fauré, Rosenthal and settings of Pushkin by Rubinstein, Dargomyzhsky, Shostakovich and Britten. He then works in Paris with soprano Hannah Morrison before partnering clarinettist Emma Johnson MBE in a programme of Tartini, Brahms, Bernstein, Bliss and Weber at St Andrew’s Church, Bedford.

October 2009 – Together with cellist Ashok Klouda, Joseph wins a place on the Music Club Awards Scheme organized by the Tunnell Trust for Young Musicians. As a result they will tour Scotland during the Spring of 2011 giving concerts from the Borders to the Highlands and the Western Isles.

October 2009 – Joseph is awarded the 'Prize for the best Lied-pianist' at the Internationaler Schubert-Wettbewerb LiedDuo 2009 held in Germany. Julia Sporsén and Joseph were one of six duos to appear in the final in Dortmund. There were 50 duos from around the World under the age of 34 competing in the live rounds with each duo presenting repertoire by Schubert, Schoenberg and Mozart. The Jury was comprised of Tom Krause, René Kollo, Irwin Gage, Graham Johnson, Arnulf von Arnim, Anne Gjevang, Helen Donath, Sibylla Rubens and Marlene Weber-Schaefer.

September 2009 – Following his success at the 2007 Wigmore Hall Song Competition, Joseph enjoys returning to play for the 2009 competition with Caroline MacPhie and Julia Sporsén (without the pressure of having to compete this time!). He then performs with Ashok Klouda at the Worshipful Company of Musicians Prince’s Prize and appears on BBC Radio 3 In Tune and at the Purcell Room with Caroline MacPhie for YCAT.

July and August 2009 – Joseph spends the summer in Chicago working as a Staff Accompanist at the prestigious Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. His partners were sopranos Katherine Whyte and Hannah Morrison and baritone Duncan Rock. They performed in a series of masterclasses and concerts. The internationally renowned faculty included Matthias Goerne, Christoph Eschenbach, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Brian Zeger, Roger Vignoles, Malcolm Martineau, Denise Massé and Susan Youens. You can catch their performances on Instant Encore. Joseph is thrilled to have been invited back to Chicago for their 2010 season.

June 2009 – Joseph performs Parry Songs with Stephen Varcoe and Purcell, Haydn and Mendelssohn with Sarah-Jane Brandon at the Royal College of Music.

May 2009 – Joseph records his debut recital disk with duo partner Clara Mouriz. They have selected a mixture of Spanish canciones to include works by Turina, Montsalvatge, Granados, Toldra, Obradors, Falla and Hallfter. They will work with EMI producer John Fraiser and the CD will be released in the Autumn. During the same week, Clara and Joseph return to Wigmore Hall, once more for the Kirckman Concerts Society. Their programme juxtaposes mélodies and canciones from either side of the Pyrenées by Ravel (including his Cinq mélodies populaires grecques, Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera, and the rarely heard piano version of Shéhérazade), Britten (French Folksongs), Falla and Turina.

May 2009 – Joseph is thrilled to be invited to give the opening recital of the 2009 Leeds Lieder+ Festival with Ann Murray DBE. They perform works by Brahms, Richard Rodney-Bennett, Martucci, Bellini, Cole Porter and a group of French songs to texts by Verlaine.

April 2009 – Joseph and Clara give a recital on the Isle of Wight, before Joseph accompanies Caroline MacPhie and Anna Huntley at the semi-finals of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards at Wigmore Hall and Caroline in the finals. He won the Accompanist’s Prize at the 2007 Awards chaired by Dame Janet Baker. Caroline and Joseph also perform at the finals of the YCAT auditions. He also works with the vocal faculty and Benjamin Britten Opera School at the RCM on their summer opera scenes and with Patricia Rozario in songs by Rodrigo.

March 2009 – Joseph wins the Worshipful Company of Musicians Concordia Foundation prize and as a result will give a Wigmore Hall recital with regular duo partners soprano Julia Sporsén and cellist Ashok Klouda in January 2010.

March 2009 – Clara Mouriz and Joseph give a recital at Richard Stokes’ Westminster School Series. In the same week Joseph performs at St John’s, Smith Square with Catherine Hopper, with internationally renown cellist Alexander Baillie in Cambridge and performs Schoenberg’s Brettl Lieder and Berg’s Sieben Frühe Lieder with RCM vocal students for the Philharmonia Orchestra’s series, Vienna: City of Dreams.

February 2009 – Joseph returns to the ‘Samling Masterclasses’, this time to work with Yvonne Kenny, Sir Thomas Allen, Paul Farrington and Malcolm Martineau at The Sage, Gateshead.

February 2009 – Catherine Hopper and Joseph are invited to give a Wigmore Hall recital during the 2010/11 season under the auspicies of the Kirckman Concert Society.

February 2009 – Joseph performs the complete songs of Henri Duparc at the Royal College of Music, introduced by Roger Vignoles and sung by vocal faculty students at the RCM.

January 2009 – Joseph travels to Stockholm to work with Cardiff Singer of the World Katarina Karnéus before giving a recital with her at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham. An extract from their five star review in the Birmingham Post can be found on the ‘Reviews Page’. Joseph will return to the Barber in 2010 with Sir Thomas Allen and Geraldine McGreevy. He also gives recitals with Caroline MacPhie for the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme.