![]() ![]() Working with Julian has been a delight, and I am very pleased that he has accepted the award of Emeritus Professor and will retain links with the Conservatoire and BCU," Birmingham City University Vice Chancellor Professor Philip Plowden has said. What has been achieved has been exceptional. "The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire has thrived under Julian’s leadership. "I will always treasure the many happy memories of my time at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, It has been a privilege to work with such a marvellous team and such wonderful students and wish the institution ongoing success," Professor Lloyd Webber has said. Throughout his five year tenure, the 69-year-old has spearheaded the conservatory's transition to its new £57 million building, secured Royal status for the organization, lead the merger of the School of Music and School of Acting and was responsible for securing the largest donation in the history of the college. This week, it was announced that British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber will step down from his role as Principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, in Birmingham, England. 1690).British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber will step down from his role as Principal at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Julian plays the ‘Barjansky’ Stradivarius cello (c. He is a passionate supporter of Leyton Orient football club and was London Underground’s first official busker. Julian is married to fellow cellist Jiaxin Cheng. Julian joined the Board of Governors of London's Southbank Centre in September 2009 and earlier that year – in recognition of his lifelong devotion to Elgar’s music – he was elected President of the Elgar Society. Recent recordings include Phantasia - based on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera and featuring violinist Sarah Chang - Unexpected Songs and The Art of Julian Lloyd Webber. Andrew showed musical aptitude at a very young age, and, while. His recording of the Glass concerto was released on the Orange Mountain label in September 2004. His father was a faculty member at the Royal College of Music and his mother was a piano teacher. Recent concert performances have included three further works composed for Julian - Michael Nyman’s Double Concerto for Cello and Saxophone on BBC Television, Gavin Bryars’ Concerto in Suntory Hall, Tokyo and Philip Glass’s Concerto at the Beijing International Festival. Julian has premiered more than fifty new works for cello and has inspired new compositions from composers as diverse as Malcolm Arnold and Joaquin Rodrigo to James MacMillan and Philip Glass. Julian has also recorded several hugely successful CDs of short pieces for Universal Classics including Made in England, Cello Moods and Cradle Song: “It would be difficult to find better performances of this kind of repertoire anywhere on records of today or yesterday” - Gramophone. Julian has made many outstanding recordings including his Brit-Award winning Elgar Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin (chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine) the Dvorák Concerto with Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the London Symphony under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten’s Cello Symphony and Walton’s Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which was described by Gramophone magazine as “beyond any rival”. ![]() As leader of In Harmony, the British Government's new music programme, Julian is working to promote personal and community development in some of England's most deprived areas, through orchestral-based learning and musical experiences. The well-known British organist, composer and academic won a scholarship to the RCM as a teenager, where he studied composition with Vaughan Williams, before becoming an RCM professor himself in later life. In 1994 he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. The centenary of Royal College of Music alumnus and former professor William Lloyd Webber is being celebrated on Tuesday 11 March. Julian has won numerous awards for his services to music, including the Crystal Award (presented at the World Economic Forum in 1998) and the Classic FM Red Award in 2005. Since then he has collaborated with an extraordinary array of musicians from Yehudi Menuhin, Lorin Maazel, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Georg Solti to Elton John and Stephane Grappelli. Widely regarded as one of the most creative musicians of his generation and now leading England’s In Harmony programme, Julian Lloyd Webber won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music when he was sixteen and completed his studies in Geneva with the renowned French cellist, Pierre Fournier. ![]()
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