Julian Lloyd Webber (born 14 April 1951) is a British solo

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, conductor and broadcaster, a former principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the founder of the In Harmony music education programme.

Early years and education

Julian Lloyd Webber is the second son of the composer and music educator William Lloyd Webber and his wife, Jean Johnstone (a piano teacher). He is the younger brother of the composer

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. The composer Herbert Howells was his godfather. He won a scholarship to the

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in 1968 and completed his studies with

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in Geneva in 1973. Royal College of Music - April 2007

Career

Lloyd Webber made his professional debut as a cellist at the

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, London, in September 1972 when he gave the first London performance of the

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by Sir Arthur Bliss. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians, including conductors

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, Neville Marriner,

Georg Solti Sir Georg Solti ( , ; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-servi ...

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, Mark Elder, Andrew Davis, Charles Mackerras and

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, pianists Clifford Curzon and

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as well as Stéphane Grappelli,

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and

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. He was described in '' The Strad'' as the " doyen of British cellists". His many recordings include his BRIT Award-winning

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conducted by Yehudi Menuhin (chosen as the finest ever version by ''

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''), the Dvořák

with Václav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic,

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's Rococo Variations with the

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under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten's Cello Symphony and Walton's

with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields which was described as "beyond any rival" by Edward Greenfield in '' Gramophone'' magazine, He has also made several recordings of shorter pieces for Universal Classics including '' Made in England'', ''

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'', ''Cradle Song'' and ''English Idyll''. Lloyd Webber has premiered the recordings of more than 50 works, inspiring new compositions for cello from composers as diverse as

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(Fantasy for Cello, 1986, and Cello Concerto, 1989), Joaquín Rodrigo ('' Concierto como un divertimento'', 1982) James MacMillan (Cello Sonata No. 2, 2001), and

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(

, 2001). More recent concert performances have included four further works composed for Lloyd Webber –

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's Double Concerto for Cello and Saxophone on

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Television,

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's Concerto in Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Glass's Cello Concerto at the Beijing International Festival and Eric Whitacre's '' The River Cam'' at the Southbank Centre. His recording of the Glass concerto with the

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conducted by

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was released on Glass' Orange Mountain label in September 2005. Other recordings include '' The Art of Julian Lloyd Webber'' (2011), '' Evening Songs'' (2012), '' A Tale of Two Cellos'' (2013), ''Vivaldi Concertos for Two Cellos'' together with Jiaxin Cheng (2014) and his debut recording as a conductor of English music for strings '' And the Bridge Is Love'' (2015). In May 2009, Lloyd Webber was elected President of the Elgar Society in succession to Sir Adrian Boult, Lord Menuhin, and

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. On 28 April 2014, Lloyd Webber announced his retirement from public performance as a cellist because of a herniated disc in his neck which reduced the power in his bow arm. His final public performance as a cellist was on 2 May 2014 at the Festival Theatre, Malvern, with the

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. In September 2014, the charity Live Music Now announced Lloyd Webber as its public spokesman. In July 2015 Lloyd Webber was appointed Principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. In 2016 Lloyd Webber scripted and presented 'Classic Cellists at the BBC' for BBC TV and in 2019, to commemorate the centenary of the first performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto in October 1919, Lloyd Webber scripted and presented 'Music in the Air: 100 years of Elgar's Cello Concerto' for Classic FM. In 2021 Lloyd Webber presented and scripted a five-part series for Classic FM in which he chose "30 under 30 of today's finest young musicians at a time when it has never been more difficult for them to show their talents on stage". In November 2021

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screened the TV special "Classic FM's Rising Stars with Julian Lloyd Webber". In July 2022 Lloyd Webber made a further selection of 30 Rising Stars together with Classic FM and another Sky Arts special was shown in November 2022. A third series of Rising Stars was announced by Classic FM in March 2023 and broadcast on 13 November 2023 In November 2023 Lloyd Webber was presented with the London Cello Society's Lifetime Achievement Award

Involvement with music education

Demonstrating his long involvement with music education, he formed the Music Education Consortium with James Galway and Evelyn Glennie in 2003. As a result of successful and continued

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by the Consortium, on 21 November 2007, the UK government announced an infusion of £332 million for music education. In 2008, the British government invited Lloyd Webber to be chairman of its In Harmony programme which is based on the Venezuelan social programme El Sistema. The government-commissioned Henley Review of Music Education (2011) reported, "There is no doubt that they he In Harmony projectshave delivered life-changing experiences." In July 2011 the founder of El Sistema in Venezuela, José Antonio Abreu, recognised In Harmony as part of the El Sistema worldwide network. Further, in November 2011 the British government announced additional support for In Harmony across England by extending funding from the

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and adding funding from

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from 2012 to 2015. Lloyd Webber now

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the charity Sistema England. In October 2012 he led the Incorporated Society of Musicians campaign against the implementation of the

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which proposed to remove arts subjects from the core curriculum. In February 2013 the government withdrew its plans. Lloyd Webber has represented the arts sector on programmes such as BBC1's '' Question Time'', ''

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'', BBC2's ''

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'' and BBC Radio 4's '' Today'', ''

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'', '' PM'', '' Front Row'' and ''

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''. Lloyd Webber was part of the expert panel which produced the UK government's Model Music Curriculum in March 2021. He is a patron of the charity Quartet of Peace, which supports the further education of talented young South African musicians , honorary patron of the Nucleo Project and an inaugural ambassador of the London Music Fund. He is also the patron of Guildford County School and a patron of the

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Principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Lloyd Webber was appointed principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in July 2015. During his five-year tenure he oversaw the move to a new £57 million building on the Birmingham City University City Centre Campus and the merger of the Conservatoire with the Birmingham School of Acting. In September 2017 the Conservatoire received the Royal status by

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. In September 2020, in recognition of his tenure, Lloyd Webber was appointed Emeritus Professor of Performing Arts by

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Honours and awards

Lloyd Webber received the Crystal Award at the

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in 1998 and a Classic FM Red Award for outstanding services to music in 2005. He won the Best British Classical Recording at the 1986 Brit Awards for his recording of Elgar's

with Sir

and the

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. He was made a Fellow of the

in 1994 and has received honorary doctorates from the

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and

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. He is vice president of the Delius Society and a patron of Music in Hospitals and the patron of the Elgar Festival He has been an ambassador for the Prince's Trust for more than thirty years and a patron of CLIC Sargent for more than thirty years. In May 2001, he was granted the first busker's licence on the

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. In September 2009 he joined the board of governors of the Southbank Centre. He was the Foundling Museum's

Handel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel ( ; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti. Born in Halle, Germany, H ...

Fellow for 2010. He was the only classical musician chosen to play at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony. On 16 April 2014 Lloyd Webber received the Incorporated Society of Musicians Distinguished Musician Award. Lloyd Webber was appointed

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(OBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to music.

Personal life

In 1974, aged 23, Lloyd Webber married Celia Ballantyne, a marriage that lasted 15 years. In 1989 he married Zohra Mahmoud Ghazi, a great niece of Mohammed Zahir Shah, king of Afghanistan, with whom he had a son. His third marriage was to French-Algerian Kheira Bourahla. In 2009 he married fellow cellist Jiaxin Cheng. The couple have one daughter. He is a lifelong supporter of Leyton Orient football club in east London."Exclusive Interview: Julian Lloyd Webber on Orient"
View from the West Stand 5 September 2011

Recordings

Cello and orchestra

Frank Bridge Frank Bridge (26 February 187910 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor. Life Bridge was born in Brighton, the ninth child of William Henry Bridge (1845–1928), a violin teacher and variety theatre conductor, formerly a ...

– ''Oration'' (1976) *

Édouard Lalo Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo (27 January 182322 April 1892) was a French composer, violist, violinist, and academic teacher. His most celebrated piece is the '' Symphonie Espagnole'', a five-movement concerto for violin and orchestra that re ...

–

(1982) *

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–

(1982) * Joaquín Rodrigo – '' Concierto como un divertimento'' (1982) *

Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( ; ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions ...

– Cello Concertos No. 1 and No. 4 (1983) *

Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...

–

(1985) *

Victor Herbert Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an American composer, Cello, cellist and conducting, conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and co ...

– Cello Concerto No. 2 (1986) *

Arthur Sullivan Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 comic opera, operatic Gilbert and Sullivan, collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including ''H.M.S. Pinaf ...

– Cello Concerto (1986) *

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8September 18411May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predec ...

–

(1988) *

Arthur Honegger Arthur Honegger (; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss-French composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Honegger was a member of Les Six. For Halbreich, '' Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher'' is "more even ...

– Cello Concerto (1990) * Camille Saint-Saëns – Cello Concerto No. 1 (Saint-Saëns), Cello Concerto No. 1 (1990) * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ''Variations on a Rococo Theme'' (1991) * Nikolai Myaskovsky – Cello Concerto (1991) * Gustav Holst – ''Invocation ''(1993) *

– Cello Concerto (1994) * Benjamin Britten – '' Cello Symphony'' (1995) * William Walton –

(1995) *

– Concerto for Cello, Saxophone and orchestra (1996) * Max Bruch – ''Kol Nidrei (Bruch), Kol Nidrei'' (1998) * Granville Bantock – ''Sapphic Poem'' (1999) *

– Cello Concerto No. 1 (Glass), Cello Concerto No. 1 (2003) *

– ''Phantasia (album), Phantasia'' for violin, cello and orchestra (2004) * Eric Whitacre – '' The River Cam'' (2012) * ''Antonio Vivaldi, Vivaldi Concertos for Two Cellos'' (2014) * Howard Goodall – '' And the Bridge Is Love'' (2015)

Cello and piano

* Peter Racine Fricker – Cello Sonata (1976) * John Ireland (composer), John Ireland – Complete Piano Trios (1976) * Benjamin Britten – Cello suites (Britten), Third Suite for Cello (1979) * Claude Debussy – Cello Sonata (Debussy), Cello Sonata (1979) * John Ireland – Cello Sonata (1979) * Sergei Rachmaninoff – Cello Sonata (Rachmaninoff), Cello Sonata (1979) * Alan Rawsthorne – Cello Sonata (1986) * Benjamin Britten – Cello Sonata (Britten), Cello Sonata (1988) * Sergei Prokofiev – ''Ballade'' (1988) * Dmitri Shostakovich – Cello Sonata (Shostakovich), Cello Sonata (1988) * Gabriel Fauré – ''Elegie'' (1990) * Charles Villiers Stanford – Cello Sonata No. 2 (1991) *

– ''Caprice and Elegy'' (1993) * Edvard Grieg – Cello Sonata (Grieg), Cello Sonata (1995) * Frederick Delius – Cello Sonata (1995)

Solo cello

* John McCabe (composer) – Partita for Solo Cello (1976) * Benjamin Britten – Cello suites (Britten), Third Suite for Cello (1979) *

– Fantasy for Cello (1986) * William Walton – Passacaglia for solo Cello (1986) * Benjamin Britten – Tema Paul Sacher, Sacher (1979) * Johann Sebastian Bach, J. S. Bach – Cello Suites (Bach)#Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009, Bourrées from Suite No. 3 (1973) * Trad. Irish – "Star of the County Down" (1993)

Cross-genre

* ''Variations (Andrew Lloyd Webber album), Variations'' with Gary Moore, Barbara Thompson (musician), Barbara Thompson, Jon Hiseman, Rod Argent (1978) * ''Oasis (Oasis album), Oasis'', with Peter Skellern and Mary Hopkin (1984) * ''Two Worlds'', with Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin (2000)

Collections

* ''Travels with My Cello (album), Travels with My Cello'' (1984) * '' Pieces'' (1985) * ''Encore! (Travels with My Cello – Volume 2), Encore! – Travels with my Cello Vol. 2'' (1986) * ''Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber'' (1989) * ''Cello Song'' (1993) * ''English Idyll'' (1994) * ''Cradle Song'' (1995) * ''

'' (1998) * ''Elegy (Julian Lloyd Webber album), Elegy'' (1999) * ''Celebration (Julian Lloyd Webber album), Celebration'' (2001) * '' Made in England'' (2003) * ''Unexpected Songs'' (2006) * ''Romantic Cello Concertos'' (2009) * ''Fair Albion'' – Music by Patrick Hawes (2009) * '' The Art of Julian Lloyd Webber'' (2011) * '' Evening Songs'' (2012) * '' A Tale of Two Cellos'' (2013) * ''A Span of Time'' (2018) * ''The Singing Strad'' (2021)

Conducting

*'' And the Bridge Is Love – English Music for Strings'',

(2015)

First performances

Publications

*''Travels with My Cello (book), Travels with My Cello'', Julian Lloyd Webber, Pavilion Books, London (1984). *''Julian Lloyd Webber: Married to Music. The Authorised Biography'', Margaret Campbell, Robson Books, London (2001). . *''Short Sharp Shocks – A Masterclass of the Macabre'', ed. Julian Lloyd Webber, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1990, . *''Song of the Birds (book), Song of the Birds. Sayings, Stories and Impressions of Pablo Casals'', compiled, edited and with a foreword by Lloyd Webber, Robson Books, London (1985 . *Numerous editions including Arnold's ''Fantasy for Cello'' (Faber Music), Rodrigo's ''Concierto como un divertimento'' (Schott Music, Schott) and a series of editions for Faber Music's ''Young Cellists' Repertoire'' (books 1, 2 and 3), followed by two advanced volumes, ''Recital Repertoire for Cellists'' (books 1 and 2.) *Editions of the major cello repertoire, ''The Julian Lloyd Webber Performing Edition'', Kevin Mayhew Ltd.

References

External links

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