Joseph
specialises in the art of song accompaniment and chamber music and
has been highly acclaimed within this field. He performs and
records with many of the world’s finest singers in major music
centres across Europe and North America.
Joseph enjoys recitals with internationally
established singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Ian Bostridge,
Iestyn Davies, Roderick Williams, Katarina Karnéus, Jonathan
Lemalu, Dame Felicity Lott and many more. He also regularly
collaborates with rising stars from the younger generation and in
2012 he formed the Myrthen Ensemble to further explore the song
repertoire with regular duo partners Sophie Bevan, Clara Mouriz,
Allan Clayton and Marcus Farnsworth. Work with instrumentalists
includes concerts with Natalie Clein, Emma Johnson, Lawrence Power,
and the Goldner, Navarra and Meta4 Quartets. Joseph has a special
relationship with the BBC through his work with their New
Generation Artists Scheme and as such has made numerous live
broadcasts of solo, chamber and song repertoire for BBC Radio 3,
including twice being invited to curate his own weeklong series of
lunchtime concerts.
Born in Gloucestershire, Joseph graduated with
an MPhil from the University of Birmingham before studying piano on
an EMI Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. Upon graduation
he held Junior Fellowships at both the RCM and RAM, had the title
of Associate conferred upon him by the RAM, was made the Samling
Foundation’s inaugural Pianist Scholar, and took up the post of
Musician in Residence at Pembroke College Cambridge. Joseph's
competitive successes include the Accompaniment Prizes of the
Wigmore Hall International Song, Kathleen Ferrier, Richard Tauber,
Royal Over-Seas League and Geoffrey Parsons Awards. In Germany he
was awarded the ‘Best Lied-Pianist Prize’ at the International
Schubert Competition LiedDuo. In 2014, Joseph was invited to be the
new Director of Leeds Lieder, ‘one of the most exuberant and
far-reaching festivals of art-song in the UK’ (The Times).