Artists

Jorian van Nee was born in 1999. He follows lessons from Frank Peters at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, and also followed lessons and masterclasses from several pianists, including Ronald Brautigam and Jan Wijn. He played with various orchestras, including Sinfonia Rotterdam, the Yehudi Menuhin orchestra, and the Residentie Orkest in The Hague. In 2013, he won the first prize as well as a first prize at the composition competition at the Prinses Christina Concours. In 2015, he won the best accompaniment prize at the same competition. He also won prizes at the Young Pianist Foundation, the Peter de Grote Festival and, together with singer Noëlle Drost, at the International Student Lied Competition. Also with Noëlle, he participated in the Leeds Lieder Festival in 2023 and the International Lied Festival in Zeist in 2021. He has a Bechstein grand piano on loan from the Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds.

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.