Julius Drake is a pianist who has specialized in vocal and instrumental accompaniment and in chamber music. Unlike the majority of accompanists who tend to work with a small group of soloists over most of their careers, Drake has collaborated with an unusually wide group of artists. A noted early release, with soprano Katarina Karnéus in 2002, featured songs by Jean Sibelius. His most frequent vocal collaborator has been tenor Ian Bostridge. His instrumental collaborators include clarinetist Emma Johnson. In 2019, Drake backed tenor Nicky Spence on a recording of Janáček's rarely heard The Diary of One Who Disappeared and Nursery Rhymes. In 2022, he backed Alice Coote on the album Schubert: 21 Songs, and that year, he was heard once again as accompanist to bass-baritone Gerald Finley on a recording of Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795.