Joseph Shiner

Joseph Shiner is a multi-disciplinary classical musician based in the United Kingdom, cultivating a wide-ranging career as performer, scholar, and educator. After specialist study at Wells Cathedral School with Kevin Murphy and Timothy Orpen, Joseph graduated from both Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music, London with highest honours, studying with David Campbell, Mark van de Wiel, Angela Malsbury, Andrew Marriner, and Patrick Messina. He currently holds a non-resident C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellowship at the Juilliard School in New York City, where, in addition to instrumental study with Anthony McGill, his research interests centre around LGBTQ+ musicology and the European fin de siècle with particular focus on the life and work of Clement Harris, advised by historical musicologist Dr. Elizabeth Weinfield. Joseph's pedagogical activities range from instrumental, chamber and orchestral coaching to the tuition of music history, theory, practical musicianship and writing at institutions including the Juilliard School, the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music and Merchant Taylors’ School. Joseph has also co-ordinated and led community and school projects for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Magnard Ensemble, the Royal Academy of Music Open Academy, Wigmore Hall Learning, and the Musicians' Company, receiving the Company’s Patricia Prindl Prize for excellence in educational outreach. In addition to teaching at the RCMJD, Joseph also teaches academic music and musicianship at the Purcell School.
As a clarinettist, Joseph has appeared at venues in the UK, Europe, USA and China, as well as festivals in the UK, Europe and the USA. A recipient of awards from Making Music, the City Music Foundation, the Hattori Foundation and the Musicians' Company, his performances and recordings have been broadcast on domestic and international radio, and featured in BBC Music and Gramophone magazines. Over the years, Joseph has enjoyed fruitful collaborations with the Allegri, Endellion and Barbican quartets, as well as with pianists Somi Kim, Keval Shah, Michael Dussek, Christopher Glynn, Sholto Kynoch and Joanne Chang. In 2019, Joseph released his debut recording on Orchid Classics, surveying Brahms' works for clarinet with piano and 'cello with Somi Kim and Yoanna Prodanova. The disc was a Classic FM ‘Album of the Week’, and hailed by Gramophone for its 'stormy grandiloquence' and 'twilit poetry'. From 2012 to 2022, Joseph was a founding member of the award-winning ‘Magnard Ensemble’, active in recital, education and interdisciplinary project work, as well as making acclaimed recordings of music by Paul Patterson, Martin Butler, and Stephen Dodgson for Orchid Classics and Toccata Classics. In addition to performing with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Aurora Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Joseph is active in contemporary music, premiering works by Misha Mullov-Abbado, Kate Whitley and Freya Waley-Cohen. Joseph has appeared as soloist with ensembles including the Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra of London, the City of Southampton Orchestra, the Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra, the Outcry Ensemble, the Orion Orchestra, the New Cambridge Sinfonia, the Young Musicians' Symphony Orchestra and the Cambridge University Sinfonia (formerly the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra).

Faculties / departments: Junior Department

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