Born in Barcelona, his musical education, including piano, cello and voice, started at the Escolania de Montserrat. He held bachelor degrees in Choral Conducting and Singing from the ESMUC in Barcelona before going on to study at the Guildhall School. Operatic roles feature Il Conte (Le nozze di Figaro), Mercutio (Roméo et Juliette), Aeneas (Dido & Aeneas) o Tarquinius (The Rape of Lucretia), among others. As a lieder performer he has presented Die schöne Magelone, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Dichterliebe, Histoires Naturelles, La bonne chanson or An die ferne Geliebte at the Schubertíada, the LIFE Victoria and L'Auditori in Barcelona or the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid. He has also taken part in the premieres of Catalan composers such as García-Demestres (L'eclipsi), Magrané (Diàlegs de Tirant e Carmesina) o García-Tomás (Chansons Trouvées).
Highly acclaimed pianist Joseph Middleton specialises in the art of song accompaniment and chamber music. He is Director of the Leeds Lieder Festival, Musician in Residence at Pembroke College Cambridge and a Professor at his alma mater, the Royal Academy of Music. Joseph collaborates with internationally established singers including Thomas Allen, Ian Bostridge, Sarah Connolly, Lucy Crowe, Iestyn Davies, Wolfgang Holzmair, Christiane Karg, Katarina Karnéus, Simon Keenlyside, Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, John Mark Ainsley, Kate Royal, Carolyn Sampson and Roderick Williams. He is a regular guest at New York’s Alice Tully Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Zürich Tonhalle, Köln Philharmonie, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Musée d’Orsay in Paris and London’s Wigmore Hall.
Nascut el 1989, inicia els seus estudis de piano a Oviedo als sis anys. Després d'estudiar a l'Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, es trasllada a Londres per estudiar al Royal College of Music. Posteriorment, continua la seva formació a la Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst de Viena. Actualment, compagina la seva activitat docent a l'Escola Superior de Música Reina Sofía amb una àmplia activitat internacional com a solista i com a músic de cambra, que l'ha dut a actuar a sales com el Wigmore Hall, l'Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, el Palau de la Música Catalana, la Fundación Juan March y el Ateneu de Bucarest, a més d'haver fet gires de concert per Llatinoamèrica i Xina.
In 2004, she made her debut at the Opéra-Bastille in Paris as Pamina. Julia Kleiter has already been heard as the Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Ilia (Idomeneo), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) or Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). Recently, she could be heard with Dvořák's Stabat Mater and Requiem, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri, Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem. Haydn's Creation and Bruckner's Te Deum. Julia Kleiter can also be heard in numerous recitals at London's Wigmore Hall, in Paris, Madrid, Munich and at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. She performs regularly with the pianists Michael Gees and Julius Drake and has also appeared at the Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Philharmonie in Essen.
Julius Drake lives in London and enjoys an international reputation as one of the finest instrumentalists in his field, collaborating with many of the world’s leading artists. The New Yorker has described him as the “collaborative pianist nonpareil”. He appears regularly at all the major music centres and festivals. His passionate interest in song has led to invitations to devise song series for Wigmore Hall, London, the BBC and The Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. His annual series of song recitals – Julius Drake and Friends – in the historic Middle Temple Hall in London, has featured recitals with many outstanding vocal artists including Thomas Allen, Olaf Bär, Ian Bostridge, Angelika Kirchschlager, Iestyn Davies, Veronique Gens, Felicity Lott, Simon Keenlyside, Christopher Maltman, Mark Padmore, Christoph Prégardien.