Born in Flensburg, Dorothea Röschmann was awarded the title of Kammersängerin at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin in 2017, having been a member of the ensemble for many years. She has been a frequent guest at the Salzburg Festival since 1995 and at the Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatosper Munich, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and in Berlin.
Renowned as a distinguished Mozartian, she has recently expanded her repertoire into Wagner with Elisabeth Tannhäuser at the Semperoper Dresden and Hamburgische Staatsoper last season, and Isolde at the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy and in concert in Berlin in 2023. She made her debut in the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos at the 2021 Edinburgh International Festival, recorded for Linn Records, and revived the role at the Teatro Comunale Bologna in 2022.
In concert last season she performed Mahler Symphony No.2 with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Rafael Payare, Isolde in concert with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Robin Ticciati, and Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with Kristiina Poska and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Future concerts include Tove in Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder with Sir Simon Rattle and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Erwartung with Patrick Hahn and the Wiener Symphoniker and Mahler Symphony No.2 with Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony.
A celebrated recitalist, she was awarded a Grammy in 2017 for her solo recital recording of Schumann and Berg with Mitsuko Uchida.
Joseph 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 (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.
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) Joseph Middleton (piano)
Photograph by Harald Hoffmann.
The Robert Stoker Concert
Songs by Schubert, Brahms, Wagner and Schönberg.
Born in Flensburg, Dorothea Röschmann was awarded the title of Kammersängerin at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin in 2017, having been a member of the ensemble for many years. She has been a frequent guest at the Salzburg Festival since 1995 and at the Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatosper Munich, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and in Berlin.
Renowned as a distinguished Mozartian, she has recently expanded her repertoire into Wagner with Elisabeth Tannhäuser at the Semperoper Dresden and Hamburgische Staatsoper last season, and Isolde at the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy and in concert in Berlin in 2023. She made her debut in the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos at the 2021 Edinburgh International Festival, recorded for Linn Records, and revived the role at the Teatro Comunale Bologna in 2022.
In concert last season she performed Mahler Symphony No.2 with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Rafael Payare, Isolde in concert with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Robin Ticciati, and Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with Kristiina Poska and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Future concerts include Tove in Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder with Sir Simon Rattle and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Erwartung with Patrick Hahn and the Wiener Symphoniker and Mahler Symphony No.2 with Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony.
A celebrated recitalist, she was awarded a Grammy in 2017 for her solo recital recording of Schumann and Berg with Mitsuko Uchida.
Joseph 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 (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.