Dame Sarah Connolly with Julius Drake

We’re joined by the superb duo of mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Julius Drake for this concert.

Sarah Connolly was made a DBE in the 2017 Birthday Honours, having previously been awarded a CBE in the 2010 New Year’s Honours. In 2020 she was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in recognition of her outstanding services to music. She has sung at the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Salzburg and Tanglewood festivals and the BBC Proms where, in 2009, she was a soloist at the Last Night. Opera engagements have taken her around the world from The Metropolitan Opera to the Royal Opera House, the Paris Opera, La Scala Milan, the Vienna and Munich State Operas and the Bayreuth, Glyndebourne and Aix-en-Provence Festivals.

The pianist Julius Drake lives in London and enjoys an international reputation as one of the finest instrumentalists in his field, collaborating with many of the world’s leading artists, both in recital and on disc. Recent concerts include a recital at La Scala, Milan with Ludovic Tézier; return visits to the Boulez Saal Berlin for the series ‘Lied und Lyrik’; a recital tour in the USA with Ian Bostridge; the complete Mahler songs in five recitals in the Mahler Festival at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; return visits to the Chamber Music Festivals of Santa Fe, Leeds and Oxford; concerts in Berlin and the Aldeburgh Festival with Andrè Schuen; piano duet recitals with Elisabeth Leonskaja including at the Schubertiade Festival; recitals in the USA and Europe with Fleur Barron, Mercedes Gancedo, Christoph Prégardien, Julia Kleiter, Roderick Williams.

–

Unfortunately due to extremely limited seating capacity for this concert, which is presented in partnership with Oriel College, concessionary tickets are not available.

£10 concessionary rush tickets may be available 24-48 hours before the event. To be alerted to any availability for these tickets please sign up to our rush tickets mailing list here. These are available to anyone who qualifies for our standard concessionary tickets. Proof of eligibility may be requested.

Concessionary tickets continue to be available for all events solely promoted by Music at Oxford.