Acclaimed for his “fluidity of tonal colour’ and “highly communicative, musically intelligent, impressively insightful’ playing, Joseph Shiner is building a career as an exciting young soloist and recitalist, with an ease and approachability on the concert platform and a flair for creative programming. As well as being a selected artist for the City Music Foundation since 2014, Joseph is the recipient of numerous prizes including the Hattori Foundation Senior Award, the Making Music Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Prince’s Prize and the Royal Academy of Music Buffet Crampon Clarinet Prize. He made his London solo debut playing the Nielsen Concerto with the Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra at St. John’s Smith Square in 2011, and is active in recital around the United Kingdom. He has enjoyed collaborations with the Endellion and Alauda Quartets, and is a founding member of the wind chamber group ‘Magnard Ensemble’, which hold both a Chamber Music fellowship and the inaugural Open Academy/Wigmore Hall Learning fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music for the 2014-15 season. Joseph is highly engaged in the creation of new music, always endeavouring to incorporate new or hitherto unfamiliar repertoire into his programmes. In 2012 he accepted a Contemporary Ensemble fellowship at the Atlantic Music Festival, Maine, USA; during the four weeks of his residency Joseph premiered thirty-eight works by students, fellows and faculty members. His repertoire extends through an expanding number of commissions from composers such as Misha Mullov-Abbado and Kate Whitley; 2015 sees him premiering new works by Ian Morgan-Williams and Freya Waley-Cohen. Joseph’s initial study took place at Wells Cathedral School under the tutelage of Kevin Murphy and Timothy Orpen, during which time he was principal clarinet of the National Youth Orchestra as well as a BBC Young Musician Wind Category finalist. He subsequently read Music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, where he graduated with First Class honours and several awards and prizes, before moving onto postgraduate study with Angela Malsbury, Mark van de Wiel and Chi-Yu Mo at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he graduated with Distinction and the DipRAM. Joseph is currently Artist-in-Residence at Lancing College.