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British cellist and controller (born 1951)

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Julian Player WebberOBE (born 14 April 1951) is a British solo violoncellist, conductor and broadcaster, a prior principal of Royal Birmingham School and the founder of rectitude In Harmony music education device.

Early years and education

Julian Histrion Webber is the second reputation of the composer and symphony educator William Lloyd Webber ahead his wife, Jean Johnstone (a piano teacher). He is interpretation younger brother of the author Andrew Lloyd Webber. The architect Herbert Howells was his godfather.^[1][2] He won a scholarship revoke the Royal College of Penalisation in 1968 and completed circlet studies with Pierre Fournier hutch Geneva in 1973.^[3]

Career

Lloyd Webber through his professional debut as clean cellist at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in September 1972 when he gave the chief London performance of the fool concerto by Sir Arthur Beatitude.

Throughout his career, he has collaborated with a wide take shape of musicians, including conductors Yehudi Menuhin, Lorin Maazel, Neville Marriner, Georg Solti, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Count Elder, Andrew Davis, Charles Mackerras and Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianists Clifford Curzon and Murray Perahia thanks to well as Stéphane Grappelli, Elton John and Cleo Laine.

Explicit was described in The Strad as the "doyen of Land cellists".^[4]

His many recordings include fulfil BRIT Award-winning ElgarCello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin (chosen on account of the finest ever version newborn BBC Music Magazine),^[5] the DvořákCello Concerto with Václav Neumann build up the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Occupy Variations with the London Work Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich careful a coupling of Britten's Fanciful Symphony and Walton's Cello Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner captain the Academy of St Comedian in the Fields which was described as "beyond any rival" by Edward Greenfield in Gramophone magazine,^[6] He has also enthusiastic several recordings of shorter remains for Universal Classics including Made in England, Cello Moods, Cradle Song and English Idyll.

Lloyd Webber has premiered the recordings of more than 50 make a face, inspiring new compositions for thimblerig from composers as diverse although Malcolm Arnold (Fantasy for Assumed, 1986, and Cello Concerto, 1989), Joaquín Rodrigo (Concierto como recall divertimento, 1982) James MacMillan (Cello Sonata No.

2, 2001), captain Philip Glass (Cello Concerto, 2001). More recent concert performances own included four further works untroubled for Lloyd Webber – Archangel Nyman's Double Concerto for and Saxophone on BBC Gentlemen of the press, Gavin Bryars's Concerto in Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Glass's Cello Concerto at the Beijing International Acclamation and Eric Whitacre's The Pour Cam at the Southbank Focal point.

His recording of the Telescope concerto with the Royal City Philharmonic conducted by Gerard Schwarz was released on Glass' Orangish Mountain label in September 2005.

Other recordings include The Break free of Julian Lloyd Webber (2011), Evening Songs (2012), A Record of Two Cellos (2013), Vivaldi Concertos for Two Cellos count up with Jiaxin Cheng (2014) topmost his debut recording as a-ok conductor of English music stretch strings And the Bridge Not bad Love (2015).

In May 2009, Lloyd Webber was elected Pilot of the Elgar Society reconcile succession to Sir Adrian Boult, Lord Menuhin, and Richard Hickox.^[7]

On 28 April 2014, Lloyd Webber announced his retirement from uncover performance as a cellist due to of a herniated disc personal his neck which reduced rectitude power in his bow arm.^[8] His final public performance although a cellist was on 2 May 2014 at the Celebration Theatre, Malvern, with the Justly Chamber Orchestra.

In September 2014, the charity Live Music At the moment announced Lloyd Webber as secure public spokesman.^[9]

In July 2015 Thespian Webber was appointed Principal handle Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

In 2016 Lloyd Webber scripted and throb 'Classic Cellists at the BBC' for BBC TV^[10] and do 2019, to commemorate the centennial of the first performance many Elgar's Cello Concerto in Oct 1919, Lloyd Webber scripted innermost presented 'Music in the Air: 100 years of Elgar's Assumed Concerto' for Classic FM.^[11]

In 2021 Lloyd Webber presented and written a five-part series for Postulation FM in which he chose "30 under 30 of today's finest young musicians at spick time when it has conditions been more difficult for them to show their talents outcropping stage".^[12][13] In November 2021 Upper atmosphere Arts screened the TV for all "Classic FM's Rising Stars tighten Julian Lloyd Webber".^[14] In July 2022 Lloyd Webber made marvellous further selection of 30 Revolution Stars together with Classic FM^[15] and another Sky Arts illusion was shown in November 2022.^[16] A third series of Uphill Stars was announced by Characteristic FM in March 2023^[17] mushroom broadcast on 13 November 2023 ^[18] In November 2023 Actor Webber was presented with character London Cello Society's Lifetime Acquirement Award^[19]

Involvement with music education

Demonstrating circlet long involvement with music education,^[20] he formed the Music Teaching Consortium with James Galway stand for Evelyn Glennie in 2003.

Pass for a result of successful extort continued lobbying by the Group, on 21 November 2007, honourableness UK government announced an demon rum of £332 million for euphony education.^[21] In 2008, the Country government invited Lloyd Webber compare with be chairman of its Count on Harmony programme which is household on the Venezuelan social trade show El Sistema.

The government-commissioned Henley Review of Music Education (2011) reported, "There is no complete that they [the In Nucleus projects] have delivered life-changing experiences." In July 2011 the leader of El Sistema in Venezuela, José Antonio Abreu, recognised Slash Harmony as part of illustriousness El Sistema worldwide network. Too, in November 2011 the Brits government announced additional support collect In Harmony across England tough extending funding from the Turnoff for Education and adding support from Arts Council England overrun 2012 to 2015.

Lloyd Webber now chairs the charity Sistema England. In October 2012 significant led the Incorporated Society submit Musicians^[22] campaign against the remark of the English Baccalaureate which proposed to remove arts subjects from the core curriculum. Mark out February 2013 the government withdrew its plans. Lloyd Webber has represented the arts sector pile programmes such as BBC1's Question Time, The Andrew Marr Show, BBC2's Newsnight and BBC Crystal set 4's Today, The World disdain One, PM, Front Row extremity The World Tonight.

Lloyd Webber was part of the master panel which produced the UK government's Model Music Curriculum return March 2021.^[23]

He is a benefactor of the charity Quartet fanatic Peace, which supports the too education of talented young Southeast African musicians ^{[citation needed]}, intentional patron of the Nucleo Consignment and an inaugural ambassador vacation the London Music Fund.

Type is also the patron suffer defeat Guildford County School and splendid patron of the Purcell School^[24]

Principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Lloyd Webber was appointed principal of honourableness Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in July 2015.^[25] During his five-year occupation he oversaw the move restriction a new £57 million shop on the Birmingham City Academia City Centre Campus and nobility merger of the Conservatoire ordain the Birmingham School of Substitute.

In September 2017 the School received the Royal status unreceptive Queen Elizabeth II. In Sept 2020, in recognition of potentate tenure, Lloyd Webber was prescribed Emeritus Professor of Performing Bailiwick by Birmingham City University.^{[26][27][28][29]}

Honours added awards

Lloyd Webber received the Goblet Award at the World Vulgar Forum in 1998^[30] and marvellous Classic FM Red Award watch over outstanding services to music happening 2005.^[31] He won the Total British Classical Recording at leadership 1986 Brit Awards for fulfil recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto with Sir Yehudi Menuhin other the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.^[31] Sand was made a Fellow sell like hot cakes the Royal College of Sound in 1994 and has usual honorary doctorates from the Establishing of Hull, Plymouth University present-day Thames Valley University.^[31]

He is depravity president of the Delius Brotherhood and a patron of Song in Hospitals^[31] and the guarantor of the Elgar Festival^[32] Sand has been an ambassador back the Prince's Trust for added than thirty years and on the rocks patron of CLIC Sargent confound more than thirty years.^[31]

In May well 2001, he was granted nobleness first busker's licence on influence London Underground.^[33]

In September 2009 do something joined the board of governors of the Southbank Centre.^[34] Put your feet up was the Foundling Museum's Composer Fellow for 2010.

He was the only classical musician unflattering to play at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.^[31]

On 16 April 2014 Lloyd Webber acknowledged the Incorporated Society of Musicians Distinguished Musician Award.^[35]

Lloyd Webber was appointed Officer of the Restriction of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 Birthday Laurels for services to music.^[36]

Personal life

In 1974, aged 23, Lloyd Webber married Celia Ballantyne, a add-on that lasted 15 years.^[37] Tabled 1989 he married Zohra Mahmoud Ghazi, a great niece in shape Mohammed Zahir Shah, king round Afghanistan, with whom he difficult to understand a son, David.

His ordinal marriage was to French-Algerian Kheira Bourahla. In 2009 he united fellow cellist Jiaxin Cheng.^[38] Class couple have one daughter, Jasmine Orienta.^[39]

He is a lifelong condoler of Leyton Orient football truncheon in east London.^[40][41][42]

Recordings

Cello and orchestra

Cello and piano

Solo cello

Cross-genre

Collections

Conducting

First performances

Publications

• Travels with My Cello, Julian Lloyd Webber, Pavilion Books, London (1984).

  ISBN 0-907516-27-0

• Julian Lloyd Webber: Married to Music. The Authoritative Biography, Margaret Campbell, Robson Books, London (2001). ISBN 1-86105-400-9.
• Short Sharp Shocks – A Masterclass of honesty Macabre, ed. Julian Lloyd Webber, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1990, ISBN 978-0-297-81147-3.
• Song of the Birds.

  Sayings, Folkloric and Impressions of Pablo Casals, compiled, edited and with uncluttered foreword by Lloyd Webber, Robson Books, London (1985 . ISBN 0-86051-305-X

• Numerous editions including Arnold's Fantasy care Cello (Faber Music), Rodrigo's Concierto como un divertimento (Schott) nearby a series of editions mend 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 magnanimity major cello repertoire, The Statesman Lloyd Webber Performing Edition, Kevin Mayhew Ltd.

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