Julius Drake
Pianist Julius Drake specialises in the field of chamber music and has worked with many of the world’s leading artists both in recital and on disc. International highlights include performances at the Salzburg Music Festival, Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, La Scala and Châtelet and Musée de Louvre. He has also performed at Wigmore Hall and BBC Proms.
Drake has recorded extensively, including a widely acclaimed series with Gerald Finley for Hyperion, which won the 2007, 2009 and 2011 Gramophone Awards. He recently embarked on a major project to record the complete songs of Franz Liszt for Hyperion: the second disc in the series, with Angelika Kirchschlager, won the BBC Music Magazine Award for 2012.