Julius Drake
Julius Drake ( born 1959 in London ) is an English pianist. He is exclusively dedicated to chamber music and is under the great British song companions with Graham Johnson in the wake of Gerald Moore. Drake is a professor at the University of Arts in Graz ( Austria ).
Concerts and recordings
Drake has in all major music festivals ( Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Salzburg), Tanglewood, in the Cologne Philharmonic, La Scala in Milan, Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall, the Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Châtelet (Paris), Musee du Louvre, Wiener Konzerthaus, Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Vienna Musikverein and at the Proms concerts. At the International Chamber Music Festival he is regularly invited as Kuhmo, Delft, Oxford and Cork.
He has accompanied, among others, Thomas Allen, Olaf Bär, Angelika Kirschschlager, Sergei Leiferkus, Felicity Lott, Katarina Karnéus, Simon Keenlyside, Christopher Prégardien, Thomas Quasthoff and Willard White. Widely known and award winning are his recordings with tenor Ian Bostridge. New recordings with Gerald Finley ( Ives, Ravel, Britten ) found wide acclaim. The songs of Barber and Schumann ( Heine ) received in 2008 and 2009, the Gramophone Awards. For years, he regularly accompanied mezzo-soprano Alice Coote.
Projects
On a European tour he accompanied in 2011 Ian Bostridge and Angelika Kirschschlager in Hugo Wolf's Spanish Songbook. The songs of Franz Liszt intend to play with Matthew Polenzani, English songs with Bejun Mehta. A Beethoven / Schubert project with the Belcea Quartet and Imogen Cooper runs in Aldeburgh, Lisbon and Luxembourg (city). A U.S. tour is planned with Matthew Polenzani and Dorothea Rosch man.
Teacher
From 2000 to 2003, he was in Australia, the Perth International Chamber Music Festival. He designed the performances of Janacek's "Diary of One Who Disappeared " with Deborah Warner in Munich, London, Dublin, Amsterdam and New York. In 2009 he was artistic director from Leeds Lieder Festival. Since 2010 he is professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He holds master classes in Amsterdam, Brussels, Oxford, Paris, Vienna and at the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien. Since 2009 he is Director of the Machynlleth Festival in Wales.