Anna Leese, soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano

This special concert brings together two young artists, both prize winners of the Anglo Austrian Music Society’s Richard Tauber Competition. Anna Leese was the prize winner in 2005 and Joseph Middleton won the Ferdinand Rauter prize for accompanists in 2010. Both artists are multiple prize winners and now well established names on the music scene. Anna will represent Australia in the prestigious BBC Cardiff World Singer of the Year competition and Joseph was recently described in The Times as ‘the cream of the new generation’ and has accompanied internationally acclaimed singers including Wolfgang Holzmair. They will perform a programme of Lieder by Richard Strauss and Franz Schubert including his beautiful song Viola.