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: in recent seasons concerts have taken him to the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Salzburg, Schubertiade, and Tanglewood Music Festivals; to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre, New York; the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and Philarmonie, Cologne; the Châtelet and Musée de Louvre, Paris; the Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Vienna; and the Wigmore Hall and BBC Proms, London.
Director of the Perth International Chamber Music Festival in Australia from 2000 - 2003, Julius Drake was also musical director of Deborah Warner’s staging of Janáček’s Diary of One Who Vanished, touring to Munich, London, Dublin, Amsterdam and New York.  In 2009 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Machynlleth Festival in Wales.
Julius Drake is invited regularly to give master classes, recently in Amsterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg, Oxford, Paris, Vienna and at the Schubert Institut, Baden bei Wien. From 2010 he is appointed Professor at Graz University for Music and the Performing Arts in Austria.
Julius Drake’s passionate interest in song has led to invitations to devise song series for the Wigmore Hall, London, the BBC and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. A series of song recitals – Julius Drake and Friends – in the historic Middle Temple Hall in London, has featured recitals with many outstanding vocal artists including Thomas Allen, Olaf Bär, Ian Bostridge, Angelika Kirchschlager, Sergei Leiferkus, Felicity Lott, Katarina Karneus, Simon Keenlyside, Christopher Maltman, Mark Padmore, Christoph Pregardien, Amanda Roocroft, and Willard White.
Julius Drake is frequently invited to perform at international chamber music festivals – recently Kuhmo in Finland, Delft in the Netherlands, Oxford in England and West Cork in Ireland - while his instrumental duo with Nicholas Daniel has been described in The Independent newspaper as “one of the most satisfying in British chamber music: vital, thoughtful and confirmed in musical integrity of the highest order.”

Recordings include releases for Bis, Chandos, Eloquentia, EMI, Etcetera, Hyperion, Naxos, Onyx and Virgin and include Sibelius Songs and Grieg Songs with Katarina Karneus ( both Hyperion),  French Sonatas with Nicholas Daniel (Virgin), Spanish Song with Joyce Didonato (Eloquentia), Mahler Songs and Tchaikovsky Songs with Christianne Stotijn (both Onyx) and Schumann Lieder with Alice Coote (EMI).
Live recordings from recitals at Wigmore Hall London for the ‘Wigmore Live’ label have included concerts with Lorraine Hunt Liebersen, Joyce Didonato, Christopher Maltman, Gerald Finley and Matthew Polenzani. He has made an award winning series of recordings with Ian Bostridge for EMI, including discs of  Schumann, Schubert, Henze, Britten, The English Songbook and La Bonne Chanson. His recent series of recordings with Gerald Finley for Hyperion – Ives, Barber, Schumann, Ravel and Britten – has been widely acclaimed and Barber Songs and then Schuman Heine Lieder won both the 2008 and 2009 Gramophone Awards and the Britten Songs disc won the 2011 Gramophone Award.
Recent and coming highlights in Julius Drake’s schedule include recitals in Madrid, Brussels and New York with Gerald Finley; in Moscow, Oslo and at the Schwetzingen Festival with Dorothea Röschmann; at La Fenice Venice, La Scala Milan and the Schubertiade Festival with Ian Bostridge; instrumental chamber music at the festivals of Delft, West Cork and Oxford; new recordings of Liszt with Angelika Kirchschlager, Shostakovitch with Christianne Stotijn and Schumann with Gerald Finley; performances of Janacek’s Zápisník zmizelého (The Diary of One Who Disappeared) in London, Stuttgart and Vienna with Christianne Stotijn and Mark Padmore; and four concerts, presenting the complete Mörike and Goethe Songbooks of Hugo Wolf, at London's Wigmore Hall.