“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
Julius on Inside Music BBC Radio 3
Pianist Julius Drake on perfection and partnerships Inside Music Pianist Julius Drake explores how various pianists make the piano sing, with a selection of performers including Walter Gieseking, Sviatoslav Richter, Dinu Lipatti and Benjamin Britten. Julius's...
Julius interviewed for German media
Julius appeared in the German news media in an article concerning freedom of movement for artists across the EU in the wake of Brexit. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/brexit-pianist-julius-drake-regeln-fuer-kuenstler-sind.2849.de.html?drn:news_id=1217024 The renowned...
The Gramophone Award
A very happy Julius with his Gramophone Award for The diary of one who disappeared with Nicky Spence. https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68282
Forthcoming Engagements
Forthcoming 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
Professorships & Masterclasses
Julius Drake holds a Professorship at Graz University for Music and the Performing Arts in Austria, where he has a class for song pianists and is a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music in London. He 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 IMG Artists.
Ashley Thouret
+49 (0) 511 20 300 875
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DE: +49 (0) 1590 3788180
UK: +44 (0) 7931 293301
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