Julius Drake Piano

The pianist Julius Drake lives in London and specialises in the field of chamber music, working with many of the world’s leading artists, both in recital and on disc.

He appears at all the major music centres: this season concerts take him to the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Schubertiade, and Salzburg Music Festivals; to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre, New York; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and Philarmonie, Cologne; Châtelet and Musée de Louvre, Paris; La Scala, Milan and Liceu, Barcelona; Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Vienna; and Wigmore Hall and BBC Proms, London.

Julius Drake’s many recordings include live recitals for the ‘Wigmore Live’ label, with among other artists Lorraine Hunt Liebersen, Joyce Didonato and Christopher Maltman, an award winning recordings with Ian Bostridge for EMI and his recent widely acclaimed series with Gerald Finley for Hyperion, for which Barber Songs and then Schuman Heine Lieder have won both the 2008 and 2009 Gramophone Awards. Julius Drake now embarks on a major project for Hyperion to record the complete songs of Franz Liszt.

Highlights in the coming season include a tour of Europe with Wolf’s Spanisches Liederbuch with Ian Bostridge and Angelika Kirchschlager; concerts in the Edinburgh and Schubertiade Festival with Gerald Finley; a recording of English songs for Harmonia Mundi with Bejun Mehta; a Beethoven/Schubert project in Aldeburgh, Lisbon and Luxembourg with among others the Belcea Quartet and Imogen Cooper; a recital in Istanbul with Joyce Didonato and tours in the USA with both Matthew Polenzani and Dorothea Röschmann.

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