Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber ( born April 14, 1951 in London ) is an English cellist and composer. Julian Lloyd Webber is the son of the composer William Southcombe Lloyd Webber. Some cello works of his father, which he had composed for him, he has recorded. His older brother is the musical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Career
Lloyd Webber attended the University College School in Frognal, Hampstead, London. Together with his brother he created the classical / rock album Variations - the Paganini in A minor Capriccio for violin solo is based.
Lloyd Webber was involved in the first recording of more than 50 works and has various composers such as Malcolm Arnold, Joaquin Rodrigo, James MacMillan and Philip Glass stimulated new cello compositions. Concerts lately included more composed works for him, as Michael Nyman's Double Concerto for Cello and Saxophone, Gavin Bryars ' Cello Concerto and Philip Glass' Cello Concerto.
His most recent recording of Phantasia (together with the violinist Sarah Chang ) is based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. His next recording Unexpected Songs appear in the course of 2006. Among Lloyd Webber's more recent recordings include The Art of Julian Lloyd Webber ( 2011) and Evening Songs (2012 ).
Lloyd Webber is the Chairman of the Social Music Project " In Harmony " - based on the Venezuelan social program " El Sistema ". In July 2011, has been amended following the recognition of Maestro José Antonio Abreu, the project name to " In Harmony Sistema England ".
In 1998, Lloyd Webber the " Crystal Award" at the "World Economic Forum ".
In May 2009, Lloyd Webber President of the Elgar Society.
Julian Lloyd Webber plays the " Barjansky Stradivarius ' cello (ca. 1690) by Antonio Stradivari.
Lloyd Webber has married four times. His first wife was the journalist Celia Ballantyne, who he married in 1974. In 1989 she divorced and five years later he married Zohra Ghazi, an exiled Afghan Princess ( grand-niece of Mohammed Zahir Shah ), with whom he had a son (* 1992). From 2001 to 2008 he was married to the Algerian Kheira Bourahla. In 2009 he eventually married the Chinese cellist Jiaxin Cheng, with whom he had a daughter in 2011.
Works / recordings / CD
Cello 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 Rachmaninov - Cello Sonata (1979 )
- Malcolm Arnold - Fantasy for Cello ( 1986)
- Alan Rawsthorne - Violin Sonata (1986 )
- Benjamin Britten - Cello Sonata (1988 )
- Sergei Prokofiev - Ballad (1988 )
- Dmitri Shostakovich - Cello Sonata (1988 )
- Gabriel Fauré - Elegie (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)
- 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)