Pianist Joseph Middleton specialises in the art of song accompaniment and chamber music and has been internationally acclaimed within this field. 

He enjoys fruitful partnerships with internationally established singers, including  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 at the BBC Proms. 

His fast-growing discography on Harmonia Mundi, BIS, Chandos and Signum Records has won him a Diapason D’or, Edison Award, Prix Caecilia and numerous Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine Award nominations. 

This season he returns to the Wigmore Hall for concerts with Dame Sarah Connolly and Iestytn Davies, and Amsterdam Concertgebouw with Sophie Rennert. He also accompanies James Newby for his ECHO Rising Stars concert tour. 

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. He was the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist of the Year Award in 2017.