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JULIUS Drake
The pianist Julius Drake lives in London and specializes
in chamber and vocal music, working with many of the
world’s leading artists, both in recital and on disc. He
appears at all the major music centres, including the
Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Schubertiade, and
Salzburg Music Festivals; Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center,
New York; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Philarmonie,
Cologne; Châtelet and Musée de Louvre, Paris; La Scala,
Milan; Liceu, Barcelona; Musikverein and Konzerthaus,
Vienna; and Wigmore Hall and the BBC Proms in London.
Director of the Perth International Chamber Music
Festival in Australia from 2000 to 2003, his duo with oboist
Nicholas Daniel has been described by The Independent as
‘one of the most satisfying in British chamber music: vital,
thoughtful and confirmed in musical integrity of the
highest order’. Among the many outstanding vocal artists
he has partnered are Victoria de los Angeles, Sir Thomas
Allen, Barbara Bonney, Ian Bostridge, Gerald Finley,
Matthias Goerne, Dame Felicity Lott, Simon Keenlyside,
Angelika Kirchschlager and Willard White. Professor at the
Royal Academy of Music in London and visiting professor
at the Royal Northern College of Music he gives regular
masterclasses.
Julius Drake’s many recordings include live recitals for
the Wigmore Hall Live label, with among other artists the
late Lorraine Hunt Liebersen; award-winning recordings
with Ian Bostridge for EMI; and his recent widely
acclaimed series with Gerald Finley for Hyperion, inclu -
ding discs of Barber Songs, Schumann’s Dichterliebe and
Britten’s Songs and Proverbs of William Blake that won
Gramophone Awards in 2008, 2009 and 2011 respectively.
Julius Drake has also embarked on a major new project for
Hyperion, of which this is the second volume, to record the
complete songs of Franz Liszt.
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