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| Julius Drake | Robert Lloyd | Pip Woolf | ||
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British born Julius Drake lives in London with his wife and two
daughters. Julius works with many of the world's leading vocal and
insturmental artists both in recital and on record.
Recordings include discs with Hugues Cuenod (Chandos); Benjamin Luxon (Howells 'Songs'), nominated for Gramaphone Awards (Chandos); Nicholas Daniel (Virgin Classics); Emma Johnson (ASV); Sophie Daneman (EMI); and Ruby Philogene (EMI). His acclaimed partnership with Ian Bostridge continues in a series of recordings for EMI and a television film of Schubert's Die Winterreise, shortly to be released on commercial video. Julius has compiled song series for the BBC (Faure Melodies), The South Bank Centre (Schumann in 1840) and in particular at London's renowned Wigmore Hall, A Schubert Song Diary, Songs of the Nineties and The Britten Songs, the critically acclaimed first complete concert cycle of Benjamin Britten's songs. His disc of Schumann's Dichterliebe & Liederkreis with Ian Bostridge is the winner of the 1998 Gramophone award.  |
Robert was born in Essex and educated at Oxford University. He began
life as an academic historian, turning to a singing career at the age of
28. In 1972 he was appointed Principal Bass at the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden, where he sings an enormous repertoire and works with many
of the greatest conductors and producers in the world. At the same time,
he has developed a freelance operatic and concert career which has
brought him work with all the major Opera houses and Orchestras
throughout the world.
Robert has featured in several highly successful television productions, and was the subject of, and presented, a BBC programme on the bass voice entitled Six Foot Cinderella. He appeared in a television performance of Duke Bluebeard's Castle which received the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Television. He has a vast discography of over seventy audio and video recordings. In the 1991 New Year's Honours List Robert was made a Commander of the British Empire. After the performance of Die Winterreise in St Petersburg he was awarded the Chaliapin Memorial Medal.
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After graduating in Biology and English at Keele University, England,
Pip spent several years working in environmental education. However, in
1984 she rediscovered a personal need to make visual art. By 1990 she
had initiated her own art group in Bristol working with people of all
ages and abilities who had a desire to paint and draw. This work
continues in Llangynidr, now her home and workplace.
Listening to live performance of music and time spent in India at a multi disciplinary school of performing arts were formative in developing the cross-fertilization of art forms and sensory expression in her work. pip now paints full time. She undertakes commissioned portraits as well as creating paintings in response to situations that present themselves. In 1997 she joined a team of artists, commissioned by the Countryside Commission and funded by the Arts Council, to contribute artistic perceptions of the landscape of the Surrey Hills for the landscape assessment of this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Pip shows and sells work throughout the UK. This book is her first.
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| From Franz Schubert & Wilhelm Muller to Robert Lloyd, Julius Drake & Pip Woolf | ||||
