Caroline MacPhie & Joseph Middleton

Her light-lyric instrument was clean-toned and perfectly tuned, and she delivered an enterprisingly original programme ... with flair, style and musical imagination. - The Daily Telegraph.

We’re thrilled to welcome young soprano Caroline MacPhie to our lunchtime concert series. A rising star in both the world of opera and recital, in 2008 she won first prize in the Emmy Destinn Awards and earlier this year she performed as a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Awards, held at the Wigmore Hall. Hailed as the cream of the new generation by The Times, Joseph Middleton enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician and accompanist.

Here the duo performs a varied programme featuring songs from the seventeenth up until the twentieth century from composers across Europe, including the great Robert Schumann, who this year celebrates his 200th anniversary.