Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber (born April 14, 1951 in London ) is an English cellist and composer . He has been a Principal of the Birmingham Conservatoire since 2015 . Julian Lloyd Webber is the son of the composer William Lloyd Webber . He recorded some of his father's cello works, which he had composed for him. His older brother is the musical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber .
Life
Career
Lloyd Webber attended University College School at Frognal , Hampstead , London. Together with his brother he created the classic / rock album Variations - which is based on Paganini's A minor - Capriccio for solo violin .
Lloyd Webber was involved in the first recording of more than 50 works and has inspired various composers such as Malcolm Arnold , Joaquín Rodrigo , James MacMillan and Philip Glass to create new cello compositions. Works composed for him also include Michael Nyman's Double Concerto for Cello and Saxophone , Gavin Bryars 'Cello Concerto and Philip Glass' Cello Concerto.
His recording Phantasia (with violinist Sarah Chang ) is based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera . In 2006 the album Unexpected Songs was released . Lloyd Webber's more recent recordings include The Art of Julian Lloyd Webber (2011) and Abendlieder (2012).
In 1998 Lloyd Webber received the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum .
In 2008 Lloyd Webber became chairman of the social music project In Harmony , which emerged as an offshoot of the Venezuelan social program El Sistema and was later renamed Sistema England .
In May 2009, Lloyd Webber became President of the Elgar Society.
For more than thirty years, Julian Lloyd Webber played the " Barjansky " cello (approx. 1690) by Antonio Stradivari , which he had acquired in 1983. On April 28, 2014, he announced that he would no longer perform in public, even though he was only 63 years old. After a herniated disc in his cervical spine, his right arm no longer had enough strength to play the cello. On May 2nd, 2014 he gave his farewell concert at the Forum Theater in Malvern , accompanied by the English Chamber Orchestra . In January 2015 it was announced that he was offering the "Barjansky" for sale. He said it wasn't about the money. Such an instrument must be played; if it ended up in a museum instead, that would be “criminal”.
Lloyd Webber was appointed future Principal (meaning: President) of the Birmingham Conservatoire in March 2015 and took office in July 2015.
Private life
Lloyd Webber married four times. His first wife was the journalist Celia Ballantyne, whom he married in 1974. They divorced in 1989 and five years later he married Zohra Ghazi, an Afghan princess living in exile (great niece of Mohammed Sahir Shah ), with whom he has a son (* 1992). From 2001 to 2008 he was married to the Algerian Kheira Bourahla. In 2009 he finally married the Chinese cellist Cheng Jiaxin , with whom he had a daughter in 2011.
Work / recordings / CD
Violoncello and orchestra
- Frank Bridge - Oration (1976)
- Édouard Lalo - Cello Concerto (1982)
- Frederick Delius - Cello Concerto (1982)
- Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto como un divertimento (1982)
- Joseph Haydn - Cello Concerto Nos. 1 and 2 (1983)
- Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto (1985)
- Victor Herbert - Cello Concerto No. 2 (1986)
- Arthur Sullivan - Cello Concerto (1986)
- Antonín Dvořák - Cello Concerto (1988)
- Arthur Honegger - Cello Concerto (1990)
- Camille Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto No. 1 (1990)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Variations on a Rococo Theme (1991)
- Nikolai Myaskovsky - Cello Concerto (1991)
- Gavin Bryars - Cello Concerto (1994)
- Benjamin Britten - Cello Symphony (1995)
- William Walton - Cello Concerto (1995)
- Michael Nyman - Concerto for Cello, Saxophone and orchestra (1996)
- Max Bruch - Kol Nidrei (1998)
- Granville Bantock - Sapphic Poem (1999)
- Philip Glass - Cello Concerto No. 1 (Glass) (2003)
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Phantasia for violin, cello and orchestra (2004)
- Romantic Cello Concertos (2009)
- Eric Whitacre - "The River Cam" (2012)
Cello and piano
- Peter Racine Fricker - Cello Sonata (1976)
- John Ireland - Complete Piano Trios (1976)
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Variations (1977)
- Benjamin Britten - Third Suite for Cello (1979)
- Claude Debussy - Cello Sonata (1979)
- John Ireland - Cello Sonata (1979)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff - Cello Sonata (1979)
- Malcolm Arnold - Fantasy for Cello (1986)
- Alan Rawsthorne - Cello Sonata (1986)
- Benjamin Britten - Cello Sonata (1988)
- Sergei Prokofiev - Ballad (1988)
- Dmitri Shostakovich - Cello Sonata (1988)
- Gabriel Fauré - Elegy (1990)
- Charles Villiers Stanford - Cello Sonata No. 2 (1991)
- Frederick Delius - Caprice and Elegy (1993)
- Gustav Holst - Invocation (1993)
- Edvard Grieg - Cello Sonata (1995)
- Delius - Cello Sonata (1995)
CD collections
- Travels with my Cello (1984)
- Pieces (1985)
- Travels with my Cello Vol.2 (1986)
- Cello Song (1993)
- English Idyll (1994)
- Cradle Song (1995)
- Cello Moods (1998)
- Elegy (1999)
-
Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber (2001, UK:
gold) - 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)
World premieres
| composer | music | performance |
|---|---|---|
| Malcolm Arnold | Fantasy for cello | Wigmore Hall , London, December 1987 |
| Malcolm Arnold | Cello Concerto | Royal Festival Hall , London, March 1989 |
| Richard Rodney Bennett | Dream Sequence for Cello and Piano | Wigmore Hall , London, December 1994 |
| Frank Bridge | Scherzetto for Cello and Piano | Snape Maltings , April 1979 |
| Frank Bridge | Oration for Cello and Orchestra (1st public performance) | Bromsgrove Festival, Worcestershire, April 1979 |
| Gavin Bryars | Cello Concerto (Farewell to Philosophy) | Barbican Center , London, November 1995 |
| Geoffrey Burgon | Six Studies for Solo Cello | St. Thomas Cathedral, Portsmouth, June 1980 |
| John Dankworth | Fair Oak Fusion | Fair Oak, Sussex, July 1979 |
| Frederick Delius | Romance for Cello and Piano | Helsinki Festival, Finland, June 1976 |
| Edward Elgar | Romance for Cello and Piano | Wigmore Hall , London, April 1985 |
| Philip Glass | Cello Concerto | Beijing Festival, China, September 2001 |
| Vladimir Godar | Barcarolle for Cello, Strings, Harp and Harpsichord | Hellenic Center, London, April 1994 |
| Howard Goodall | The Bridge is Love for Cello, Strings and Harp | Chipping Campden Festival, May 2008 |
| Patrick Hawes | Gloriette for Cello and Piano | Leeds Castle , Kent, August 2008 |
| Joseph Haydn (attrib.) | Concerto in D, Hob.VIIb: 4 | Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, November 1981 |
| Christopher Headington | Serenade for Cello and Strings | Banqueting House , London, January 1995 |
| Karl Jenkins | Benedictus for Cello, Choir and Orchestra from ' The Armed Man ' | Royal Albert Hall , London, April 2000 |
| Philip Lane | Soliloquy for solo cello | Wangford Festival, Suffolk, July 1972 |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | Variations | Sydmonton Festival , Newbury, July 1977 |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | Phantasia (Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra) | Izmir Festival, Turkey, July 2008 |
| William Lloyd Webber | Nocturne for Cello and Piano | Purcell Room , London, February 1995 |
| James MacMillan | Cello Sonata No. 2 | Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, April 2001 |
| Michael Nyman | Concerto for Cello and Saxophone | Royal Festival Hall , London, March 1997 |
| Joaquín Rodrigo | Concierto como un divertimento | Royal Festival Hall , London, April 1982 |
| Peter Skellern | Five Love Songs for Cello, Piano, Vocals and Brass Quintet | Salisbury International Arts Festival , September 1982 |
| Arthur Sullivan | Cello Concerto (orchestrated Mackerras) | Barbican Center , London, April 1986 |
| Vaughan Williams | Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes for Cello and Orchestra | Three Choirs Festival , Gloucester, August 1983 |
| William Walton | Theme for a Prince for Solo Cello | Adrian Boult Hall , Birmingham, October 1998 |
| Eric Whitacre | The River Cam for cello and strings | Royal Festival Hall , London, April 2011 |
| Douglas Young | Virages for Solo Cello | Purcell Room , London, September 1974 |
Web links
- Official website , including pictures and around 40 videos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our Story sistemaengland.org.uk, see also Our People there .
- ↑ The Elgar Society elgar.org
- ^ Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber announces retirement from performing theguardian.com, April 28, 2014
- ^ Julian Lloyd Webber bows out at Forum Theater Malvern Observer, May 8, 2014
- ^ Julian Lloyd Webber is selling his Stradivarius after being forced to retire Birmingham Post, January 29, 2015
- ↑ Julian Lloyd Webber appointed as new Principal of Birmingham Conservatoire Communication from Birmingham City University, March 25, 2015.
- ↑ It's Professor Lloyd Webber as Julian takes up Birmingham Conservatoire post pledging to prepare music students for modern world Communication from Birmingham City University, July 1, 2015.
- ↑ Cf. greetings from Principal Julian Lloyd Webber to the students at Birmingham Conservatoire
- ^ Julian Lloyd Webber is to marry for a fourth time telegraph.co.uk, accessed December 30, 2012.
- ^ Julian Lloyd Webber becomes father for second time at 60 timesofmalta.com, accessed December 30, 2012.
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lloyd Webber, Julian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lloyd-Webber, Julian; Webber, Julian Lloyd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English cellist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |