Julius Drake
Julius Drake (born April 5, 1959 in London ) is an English pianist . He devotes himself exclusively to chamber music and is one of the great British accompanists with Graham Johnson , succeeding Gerald Moore . Drake is a professor at the Art University Graz (Austria).
Concerts and recordings
Drake has performed at all major music festivals ( Aldeburgh , Edinburgh , Munich , Schubertiade Schwarzenberg , Salzburg ), Tanglewood , in the Cologne Philharmonic , Scala in Milan , Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall , in the Lincoln Center , Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) , Châtelet (Paris) , Louvre , Wiener Konzerthaus , Gran Teatre del Liceu and Wiener Musikverein as well as performed at the Proms . He is regularly invited to international chamber music festivals in Kuhmo , Delft , Oxford and Cork .
He has accompanied Thomas Allen , Olaf Bär , Angelika Kirchschlager , Sergei Leiferkus , Felicity Lott , Katarina Karnéus , Simon Keenlyside , Christoph Prégardien , Thomas Quasthoff and Willard White, among others . His recordings with the tenor Ian Bostridge are well known and have received numerous awards . New recordings with Gerald Finley ( Ives , Ravel , Britten ) met with great acclaim. The songs by Barber and Schumann ( Heine ) received the Gramophone Awards in 2008 and 2009 . For years he has regularly accompanied the mezzo-soprano Alice Coote .
Projects
On a European tour in 2011 he accompanied Ian Bostridge and Angelika Kirchschlager on Hugo Wolf's Spanish songbook . The songs by Franz Liszt are to be recorded with Matthew Polenzani , and English songs with Bejun Mehta . A Beethoven / Schubert project with the Belcea Quartet and Imogen Cooper is ongoing in Aldeburgh, Lisbon and Luxembourg (city) . A US tour is planned with Matthew Polenzani and Dorothea Röschmann .
Teacher
From 2000 to 2003 he directed the Perth International Chamber Music Festival in Australia . He designed the performances of Janáček's Diary of a Missing Person with Deborah Warner in Munich, London, Dublin, Amsterdam and New York. In 2009 he was artistic director of the Leeds Lieder Festival . Since 2010 he has been a 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 near Vienna . Since 2009 he has been director of the Machynlleth Festival in Wales .
Web links
- Literature by and about Julius Drake in the catalog of the German National Library
- Julius Drake in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Julius Drake (IMG)
- Franz Schubert Institute, Baden near Vienna
- Leeds Songs Festival
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Drake, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5th 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |