Joseph Fleetwood was born in 1980 in Dundee. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and at the Royal College of Music in London.

In recent years Joseph has built up a considerable reputation as a solo pianist through his many concerto performances playing works such as Grieg’s Piano Concerto, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s First and Second Concertos, Shostakovich Second Concerto and Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue with which he gave his London concerto debut at the Royal College of Music in February 2004.

Joseph has also given many solo recitals at venues including London’s Caledonian Club, Stirling Castle, Cheltenham Town Hall, Dundee University and Chelmsford Cathedral. His appearances have brought him much critical acclaim from both critics and pianists: Murray McLachlan hailed Joseph as ‘An Outstanding Young Performer’, the Dundee Courier wrote ‘His choice of programme was perfect, His performance electric!’ and South London Press said ‘Although Joseph is still only 24 years old, his performance displayed the musical maturity of a pianist twice his age’.
Joseph has proved himself to be at home in many areas of the repertoire from Bach to Brahms, Grieg to Ginastera. In the current season Joseph has given a series of concerts performing the six Bach Partitas for keyboard at Bluthner’s London Piano Centre.

As an accompanist Joseph is much in demand – at the age of 19 he won the prestigious RSAMD Lieder Prize with Australian Soprano Miranda Keys. In 2004, he was awarded First Class Honours with his piano trio for performances of Beethoven and Shostakovich Trios at the RCM and has worked with many renowned singers including Karen Cargill.

Later this year Joseph is to record his debut CD, which will be recorded in Dundee by Natural Acoustics and is to feature works by Edvard Grieg. This disc will be released in 2008