The pianist Joseph Middleton specialises in the art of song accompaniment and chamber music and has been highly acclaimed in this field. Described in Opera as ‘rightful heir to legendary accompanist Gerald Moore’ and by BBC Music magazine as ‘one of the brightest stars in the world of song and Lieder’, he has also been labelled ‘the cream of the new generation’ by The Times. He is Director of Leeds Lieder, Musician in Residence at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a Fellow at his alma mater, the Royal Academy of Music, where he is a professor. He was the first accompanist to receive the Young Artist of the Year Award of the Royal Philharmonic Society. He is a frequent guest at major music centres such as the Wigmore Hall, Royal Opera House, and Royal Festival Hall in London, Alice Tully Hall and Park Avenue Armory in New York, Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wiener Konzerthaus, Tonhalle in Zürich, Kölner Philharmonie, Oper Frankfurt, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and Oji Hall in Tokyo, as well as festivals in Aix-en-Provence, Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Ravinia, San Francisco, Seoul, deSingel, Stuttgart, Toronto, and Vancouver. He will soon make his débuts at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and Palau de la Música in Barcelona. He has partnered Louise Alder, Sir Thomas Allen, Mary Bevan, Ian Bostridge, Allan Clayton, Dame Sarah Connolly, Iestyn Davies, Christiane Karg, Katarina Karnéus, Angelika Kirchschlager, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Ann Murray DBE, Mark Padmore, Miah Persson, Fatma Said, Carolyn Sampson, Toby Spence, and Roderick Williams. Joseph Middleton has appeared twice at the BBC Proms, frequently curates his own series on BBC Radio 3, and has amassed a critically acclaimed, fast-growing, and award-winning discography.