Air Varie (大提琴）by William Lloyd Webber 父子

Julian Lloyd Webber plays Air Varie by his father on Swedish TV

Julian Lloyd Webber (born April 14, 1951) is one of the world's most renowned solo cellists. He is the second son of the composer William Lloyd Webber (some of whose pieces for cello he has recorded) and the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Julian Lloyd Webber was a scholar at the Royal College of Music ^[1] (London) and completed his studies with Pierre Fournier in Geneva in 1973.

Lloyd Webber has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians from Yehudi Menuhin, Lorin Maazel, Neville Marriner , Georg Solti and Esa-Pekka Salonen to Stephane Grappelli, Elton John and Cleo Laine.

Lloyd Webber has made many recordings, including his BRIT Award winning Elgar Cello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin (chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine),^[2] the Dvořák Cello Concerto with Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra 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". He has also recorded several CDs of short pieces for Universal Classics including Made in England, Cello Moods, Cradle Song and English Idyll (album): "It would be difficult to find better performances of this kind of repertoire anywhere on records of today or yesterday" - Gramophone.^[3]

Album cover for the Elgar Cello Concerto with Sir Yehudi Menuhin

Lloyd Webber has given more than fifty works their premiere recordings and has inspired new compositions for cello from composers as diverse as Malcolm Arnold and Joaquín Rodrigo to James MacMillan and Philip Glass. 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's Concerto in Suntory Hall, Tokyo and Philip Glass's Concerto at the Beijing International Festival. His recording of the Glass concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic conducted by Gerard Schwarz was released on the Orange Mountain label in September 2004.

Lloyd Webber’s recording, Phantasia, is based on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera and features violinist Sarah Chang. A recent EMI disc, Unexpected Songs, which included collaborations with harpist Catrin Finch and singer Michael Ball was released in June 2006.

Julian Lloyd Webber has also been greatly involved in music education and formed the 'Music Education Consortium' with James Galway and Evelyn Glennie in 2003. He also writes a monthly column on music and musicians for the Daily Telegraph. He received the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in 1998 and a Classic FM Red Award for outstanding services to music in 2005.He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 1994 and has received honorary doctorates from both the University of Hull and Thames Valley University.

Julian Lloyd Webber plays the Barjansky Stradivarius cello, dated c.1690.

In 2008, the British Government invited Lloyd Webber to be Chairman of its In Harmony project.

For knowing more please see wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Lloyd_Webber