Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber OBE (born 14 April 1951) is a British solo cellist, conductor and broadcaster, a former principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the founder of the In Harmony music education programme.Throughout his career, he has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians, including conductors Yehudi Menuhin, Lorin Maazel, Neville Marriner, Georg Solti, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Mark Elder, Andrew Davis, Charles Mackerras and Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianists Clifford Curzon and Murray Perahia as well as Stéphane Grappelli, Elton John and Cleo Laine.In May 2009, Lloyd Webber was elected President of the Elgar Society in succession to Sir Adrian Boult, Lord Menuhin, and Richard Hickox.[7] 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.[11] 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".[14] In July 2022 Lloyd Webber made a further selection of 30 Rising Stars together with Classic FM[15] and another Sky Arts special was shown in November 2022.[16] A third series of Rising Stars was announced by Classic FM in March 2023[17] and broadcast on 13 November 2023 [18] In November 2023 Lloyd Webber was presented with the London Cello Society's Lifetime Achievement Award[19] Demonstrating his long involvement with music education,[20] he formed the Music Education Consortium with James Galway and Evelyn Glennie in 2003.In October 2012 he led the Incorporated Society of Musicians[22] campaign against the implementation of the English Baccalaureate which proposed to remove arts subjects from the core curriculum.
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