BBC New Generation Artist Recital by Various, Minn (2022/2022), Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, United Kingdom

No song festival taking nature as a theme would be complete without a performance of Schubert’s evergreen Die schöne Müllerin. Today it is performed by the outstanding German-Romanian baritone Konstantin Krimmel, who has achieved a number of competition successes – notably 1st Prize and Audience Prize at the German National Music Competition in 2019, 1st Prize at the International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition and 2nd Prize at the Das Lied competition in Heidelberg. He is a BBC New Generation Artist and a member of the Bavarian State Opera. Already heard to great acclaim at Wigmore Hall with Julius Drake and Malcolm Martineau, other recital appearances include those at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Oper Frankfurt and Konzerthaus Berlin. He is joined by Leeds Lieder Director Joseph Middleton, recently described in Opera Magazine as ‘rightful heir to legendary accompanist Gerald Moore’. Joseph’s recent awards include being the first accompanist to win the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award. He was named in the Evening Standard as ‘One of London’s Most Influential People’ and last year his recordings won Holland’s Edison Award, France’s Diapason D’or, and Belgium’s Prix Caecilia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.