Joseph Middleton

He has played in music centres across the world, including: London’s Wigmore Hall, Royal Opera House and Royal Festival Hall, New York’s Alice Tully Hall and Park Avenue Armory, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Vienna, Zürich Tonhalle, Kölner Philharmonie, Oper Frankfurt, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Musée d’Orsay Paris, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Palau de la Musica, Oji Hall Tokyo and Festivals in Aix-en-Provence, Aldeburgh, Barcelona, Baden Baden, Schloss Elmau, deSingel, Edinburgh, Munich, Ravinia, San Francisco, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Soeul, Stuttgart, Toronto and Vancouver. He made his BBC Proms debut in 2016 alongside Iestyn Davies and Carolyn Sampson and returned in 2018 alongside Dame Sarah Connolly where they premiered recently discovered songs by Benjamin Britten and launched their recital CD for Chandos

Joseph Middleton (born 10 January 1981) is a British classical pianist and lied accompanist.

Middleton was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. At school he played piano, violin, flute and organ. He read music at the University of Birmingham where he graduated with the concerto and conducting awards, a first class BMus and MPhil, and went on to study on an EMI Entrance Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. At the Academy he studied with Malcolm Martineau and Michael Dussek and won several piano accompaniment awards, including the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition., Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Richard Tauber Award, Royal Over-Seas League Competition and Geoffrey Parsons (pianist) Award. On leaving the Royal Academy his first engagements were with Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) who invited him to tour North America, perform at Wigmore Hall and join him for his 70th Birthday tour of Winterreise, and with Dame Felicity Lott, with whom he recorded Elgar songs. Soon after, the mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly invited him to be a regular collaborator and they performed all over the world and recorded together. He held a Junior Fellowship at the Royal College of Music before returning to teach at the RAM and subsequently had the title Fellow conferred upon him. He was the first accompanist to win the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award and to be listed in the Evening Standard as one of London's Most Influential People. He is one of the most frequently heard pianists on BBC Radio 3 and a regular collaborator on the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme.