“I feel tremendously lucky to be able to earn my living playing the piano. I am constantly stretched and stimulated by the music I play and I’m inspired by many marvellous friends and colleagues with whom I share the platform. I am very privileged.”
“Julius Drake, the nonpareil collaborative pianist.”
– The New Yorker, May 2018
News
2024 Aldeburgh Festival Review: Andrè Schuen and Julius Drake (The Arts Desk)
"The recital as a result felt epic: an unpredictable heart of cosmic darkness and strange lights flanked by two Schumann trajectories on the personal level of love found and bitterly, desperately lost in the Op. 24 Liederkreis before the Larcher and Dichterliebe after...
Winterreise Review: Agony and ecstasy as Bostridge and Drake bring Schubert’s song cycle to dramatic life (The Guardian)
"Against this stark background, Bostridge and Drake carefully ratchet up the cycle’s intrinsic drama, unconstrained by the parameters of a recital realising a far wider range of dynamics and instrumental colour than usual. The piano felt like a whole orchestra,...
Mahler Festival 2025: Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Mahler Festival 2025 at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam The Mahler Festival 2025 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam will feature a series of performances by distinguished vocalists, accompanied by pianist Julius Drake. From May 9 to May 17. May 9 – Catriona Morison and...
Future Engagements
Future Engagements
Curated Projects
“Over the last few years, since the inauguration of Temple Song in 2006, I have performed in the glorious Middle Temple Hall with an array of the best singers in the world, most of them discovering the hall for the first time…”
“Middle Temple Hall, the setting for a first-rate concert series, is one of those London spaces that would make a tourist swoon. With its suits of armour and coats-of-arms it seems the perfect setting for stirring songs of martial derring-do.”
– Ivan Hewitt, The Daily Telegraph, 2015
Professorship & Masterclasses
Julius Drake is a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music in London. Up until 2024, he held a Professorship at Graz University for Music and the Performing Arts in Austria, where he tought a class for song pianists andHe is regularly invited to give master classes worldwide; recently in Aldeburgh, Brussels, Utrecht, Cincinnati, Toronto, Minneapolis, Ann Arbor, Vienna and at the Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien.
Contact
Julius Drake is represented worldwide by Askonas Holt.
For availability and general enquiries:
Angelica Conner
Artist Manager
Email: angelica.conner@askonasholt.com
Matt Palmer
Assistant Artist Manager
Email: matt.palmer@askonasholt.com
