Julius Drake (born 1959) is an English classical pianist, famous principally for his work as an accompanist to singers and instrumentalists. His recordings include Gramophone and Edison Award-winning discs with the English tenor Ian Bostridge for EMI, French oboe sonatas with Nicholas Daniel for Virgin, and a disc of songs by Charles Ives with Canadian baritone Gerald Finley. Drake was director of the Perth International Chamber Music Festival in Australia from 2000 to 2003, and was musical director of Deborah Warner's staging of Janácek's Diary of One Who Vanished . Julius Drake 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 Chatalet and Musée de Louvre, Paris; the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus, Vienna; and the Wigmore Hall and BBC Proms London. 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 artists including Sir Thomas Allen, Olaf Bär, Ian Bostridge, Phillip Langridge, Angelika Kirchschlager, Sergei Leiferkus, Dame Felicity Lott, Katarina Karneus, Angelika Kirchschlager, Christopher Maltman, Mark Padmore, Christoph Pregardien, Amanda Roocroft, Jose Van Dam and Sir Willard White. Julius Drake is also frequently invited to perform 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 visiting Professor at The Royal Northern College of Music. In addition he regularly gives masterclasses, most recently in Amsterdam, Brussels, Oxford, Paris, Vienna and at the Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien. In 2009 he has been invited on to the jury of The Leeds International Piano Competition. Recordings include French Mélodie with Hugues Cuenod (Chandos), French Oboe Sonatas with Nicholas Daniel (Virgin), Britten song with Derek Ragin (Etcetera), Schumann Lieder with Sophie Daneman (EMI), Gurney Songs with Paul Agnew (Hyperion), Sibelius Songs with Katarina Karneus (Hyperion), Shostakovitch Sonatas with Annette Bartholdy (Naxos), Mahler Lieder with Christianne Stotijn (Onyx) Spanish Song with Joyce Didonato (Eloquentia), Schoeck Sonatas with Christian Poltera (Bis), English Song with Andrew Kennedy (Altara) a ‘Wigmore Live’ recording with Christopher Maltman and Haydn and Schumann and Mahler Lieder with Alice Coote (EMI). He has made a series of award winning series of recordings with Ian Bostridge for EMI, including Schumann, Schubert, Henze, Britten, The English Songbook and La Bonne Chanson. His recent series of recordings with Gerald Finley for Hyperion - Ives, Barber and Schumann - have been much acclaimed and the Songs of Samuel Barber is winner of the 2008 Gramophone Award. Highlights in the coming season include Schubert at Carnegie Hall, New York with Ian Bostridge; ‘Wigmore Live’ recording releases with Gerald Finley and the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; Recitals in New York and London with Alice Coote; Grieg Songs for Hyperion with Katarina Karneus and Tchaikovsky songs for Onyx with Christianne Stotijn; recitals in Ulm and London with Diana Damrau and Schumann duets and quartets with Röschmann, Kirchschlager, Bostridge and Quasthoff at the Schubertiade in Austria and in Hamburg, London and Vienna.

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Julius Drake (born 1959) is an English classical pianist, famous principally for his work as an accompanist to singers and instrumentalists.

His recordings include Gramophone and Edison Award-winning discs with the English tenor Ian Bostridge for EMI, French oboe sonatas with Nicholas Daniel for Virgin, and a disc of songs by Charles Ives with Canadian baritone Gerald Finley.

Drake was director of the Perth International Chamber Music Festival in Australia from 2000 to 2003, and was musical director of Deborah Warner's staging of Janácek's Diary of One Who Vanished .

Julius Drake 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 Chatalet and Musée de Louvre, Paris; the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus, Vienna; and the Wigmore Hall and BBC Proms London.

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 artists including Sir Thomas Allen, Olaf Bär, Ian Bostridge, Phillip Langridge, Angelika Kirchschlager, Sergei Leiferkus, Dame Felicity Lott, Katarina Karneus, Angelika Kirchschlager, Christopher Maltman, Mark Padmore, Christoph Pregardien, Amanda Roocroft, Jose Van Dam and Sir Willard White.

Julius Drake is also frequently invited to perform 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 visiting Professor at The Royal Northern College of Music. In addition he regularly gives masterclasses, most recently in Amsterdam, Brussels, Oxford, Paris, Vienna and at the Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien. In 2009 he has been invited on to the jury of The Leeds International Piano Competition.

Recordings include French Mélodie with Hugues Cuenod (Chandos), French Oboe Sonatas with Nicholas Daniel (Virgin), Britten song with Derek Ragin (Etcetera), Schumann Lieder with Sophie Daneman (EMI), Gurney Songs with Paul Agnew (Hyperion), Sibelius Songs with Katarina Karneus (Hyperion), Shostakovitch Sonatas with Annette Bartholdy (Naxos), Mahler Lieder with Christianne Stotijn (Onyx) Spanish Song with Joyce Didonato (Eloquentia), Schoeck Sonatas with Christian Poltera (Bis), English Song with Andrew Kennedy (Altara) a ‘Wigmore Live’ recording with Christopher Maltman and Haydn and Schumann and Mahler Lieder with Alice Coote (EMI). He has made a series of award winning series of recordings with Ian Bostridge for EMI, including Schumann, Schubert, Henze, Britten, The English Songbook and La Bonne Chanson. His recent series of recordings with Gerald Finley for Hyperion - Ives, Barber and Schumann - have been much acclaimed and the Songs of Samuel Barber is winner of the 2008 Gramophone Award.

Highlights in the coming season include Schubert at Carnegie Hall, New York with Ian Bostridge; ‘Wigmore Live’ recording releases with Gerald Finley and the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; Recitals in New York and London with Alice Coote; Grieg Songs for Hyperion with Katarina Karneus and Tchaikovsky songs for Onyx with Christianne Stotijn; recitals in Ulm and London with Diana Damrau and Schumann duets and quartets with Röschmann, Kirchschlager, Bostridge and Quasthoff at the Schubertiade in Austria and in Hamburg, London and Vienna.