Joseph Middleton
British classical pianist
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- Masters Piano Performance Royal Academy of Music
- Doctorate Piano Performance City, University of London
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph Middleton is a British classical pianist and lied accompanist. Biography 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 all the academy's piano accompaniment awards, in addition to those at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition., Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Richard Tauber Award, Royal Over-Seas League Competition and Geoffrey Parsons Award. On leaving the Royal Academy his first engagements were with Sir Thomas Allen 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.
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