Joseph Fleetwood comes from an extraordinary musical lineage: His teacher was a pupil of the great pedagogues Aube Tzerko and Karl Ulrich Schnabel. Tzerko was a pupil of Artur Schnabel, and Karl Ulrich was the son of Artur Schnabel. Herr Schnabel was a pupil of Theodor Leschetizsky, Leschetizsky a pupil of Karl Czerny and Karl Czerny a pupil of Beethoven himself!

Joseph was born in Dundee and is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and the Royal College of Music in London. He gave his debut recital in Scotland in 1992 with a programme that included Beethoven's F minor Sonata Op.2 No.1. In his teenage years his performances attracted acclaim from many musicians, and when Joseph was 15, Murray McLachlan hailed him as 'An outstanding young performer'.

Whilst still a student, Joseph gave several concerto performances including Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue with the RSAMD orchestra, Beethoven's First Concerto and Grieg's Piano Concerto. As a collaborative artist Joseph won the RSAMD's coveted Lieder Prize with Australian Soprano Miranda Keys and at the Royal College of Music he was awarded First-Class honours for his chamber music performances of Beethoven and Shostakovich Piano Trios. It was whilst he was studying at the RCM that he gave his London concerto debut there, performing Rhapsody In Blue.

Joseph has built up a reputation as a musician comfortable in many different areas of the repertoire and he regularly performs works by the Classical and Romantic, Modern and Barogue composers. More recently, Joseph gave a series of recitals at the Bluthner Piano Centre in London, performing the complete Partitas by J.S.Bach.

A pianist with a formidable technique, Joseph has a number of the great piano concerti in his repertoire, including Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto and Paganini Variations, Tchaikovsky's First and Second Concerti, Shostakovich's Second Concerto, Beethoven's Fifth Concerto and Mendelssohn's First Concerto. Joseph has worked with a number of world-class musicians including Artur Pizarro, Malcolm Martineau, Dmitri Alexeev, Martino Tirimo, Gianandrea Noseda, Josef Swensen and Karen Cargill.

In the UK Joseph has performed for many music societies and venues including the London Caledonian Club, Dundee Chamber Music Club, Cheltenham Town Hall, Chelmsford Cathedral Music Festival, Dulwich College, Dunfermline Chamber Music Club, Inverness Town Hall, Stirling Castle, The Royal College of Music, The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and Bluthner's London Piano Centre.

As well as performing throughout the UK, Joseph is building up an international reputation, and has given concerts in Vienna, Aschaffenburg, Frankfurt and Wurzburg. He has broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland, BBC2 and BBC4 as part of the BBC Scottish Proms, as well as many local radio stations in Scotland.

Joseph has received support from the Douglas Charitable Trust, The Virtuosi Foundation, The Angus Council Educational Trust, The Bluthner Piano Centre, The Edinburgh Piano Company (Bosendorfer) and Dundee City Council Musician's Award Scheme amongst others.

Joseph has produced his debut CD of piano music by Edvard Grieg, which is available through his website and at all of his concerts. The disc was most recently featured on BBC Radio Scotland's 'Classics Unwrapped' Programme in April 2011.