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| Julius Drake, piano |
 He appears at all the major music centres: in recent seasons concerts have regularly taken him to the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Salzburg, Schubertiade, and Tanglewood Festivals; to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre, New York; the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; the Chatelet, Paris; the Musikverein and the 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 in Deborah Warner’s staging of Janacek’s Diary of One who Vanished, touring to Munich, London, Dublin, Amsterdam and New York. 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, features recitals with many outstanding artists including Sir Thomas Allen, Olaf Bär, Ian Bostridge, Philip Langridge, Angelika Kirchschlager, Sergei Leiferkus, Christopher Maltman, Mark Padmore, Christoph Pregardien, Amanda Roocroft, Jose Van Dam and Sir Willard White. Julius Drake also frequently performs at international chamber music festivals such as 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.” Julius Drake is a Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and regularly gives masterclasses, most recently in Amsterdam, Brussels, Graz and the Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien. He has been invited on to the jury of the 2009 Leeds International Piano Competition. Recordings include French Melodie with Hugues Cuenod (Chandos), French Sonatas with Nicholas Daniel (Virgin), Britten song with Derek Ragin (Etcetera), Schumann Lieder with Sophie Daneman (EMI), Gurney with Paul Agnew (Hyperion), Sibelius Song with Katarina Karneus (Hyperion), Shostakovich Sonatas with Annette Bartholdy (Naxos), Ives and Barber with Gerald Finley (Hyperion), Mahler Lieder with Christianne Stotijn (Onyx) Spanish Song with DiDonato (Eloquentia), Schoeck Sonatas with Christian Poltera (Bis) and Haydn, Schumann and Mahler Lieder with Coote (EMI). His award winning recordings with Ian Bostridge on EMI (a Gramophone Award and an Edison Award) include Schumann Lieder, two volumes of Schubert Lieder, Henze’s Songs from the Arabian, Britten Canticles (with Daniels and Maltman), and The English Songbook and La Bonne Chanson (with the Belcea Quartet). Highlights in the coming seasons include a programme of Schubert at Carnegie Hall, New York and the Barbican Centre, London with Thomas Quasthoff, Dorothea Röschmann and Ian Bostridge; recitals in Luxemburg and Paris with Simon Keenlyside; performances at the Australian Chamber Music Festival in Townsville; a ‘Wigmore Live’ recording with Christopher Maltman, and a Grieg Song disc with Katarina Karneus for Hyperion; a tour of Japan with Ian Bostridge; and recitals in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Chicago, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, and Vienna with Alice Coote, Diana Damrau, Gerald Finley and Christianne Stotijn. |