JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER CELLISTS TV
Julian and Jiaxin have played sell-out tours with such orchestras as the English Chamber Orchestra and the European Union Chamber Orchestra and have made many national TV and Radio appearances on such high-profile programmes as BBC Breakfast, The Andrew Marr Show and Radio 4 Midweek. Their 2013 recording, ‘A Tale of Two Cellos’ was the Number One UK classical album for many weeks and is one of the Naxos label’s bestselling recordings. Now resident in the UK, Jiaxin is married to Julian Lloyd Webber and has performed with Julian for BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, CNN Global TV, and BBC TV. While in New Zealand, Jiaxin was the principal cello of the Auckland Chamber Orchestra, a founder member of the Aroha String Quartet and played regularly with both the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. She was already giving performances with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra but left China for further studies in New Zealand where she received her Master's Degree at Auckland University in 2001. Jiaxin Lloyd Webber graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1997. A lifelong Leyton Orient supporter, he was the London Underground’s first official busker and the only classical musician to perform at the Closing Ceremony of the Olympics 2012.
Julian is married to fellow cellist Jiaxin Cheng. In September 2017 the Conservatoire was awarded the Royal status by Her Majesty the Queen. During his five-year tenure he oversaw the move to a new £57 million building and the merging of the existing Conservatoire with the Birmingham School of Acting. In July 2015 he was appointed principal of Birmingham Conservatoire. In 2014 Julian was forced to retire from playing the cello due to a neck injury which reduced the power of his bowing arm. Julian has represented the music education sector on BBC1’s Question Time and The Andrew Marr Show, BBC2’s Newsnight and BBC Radio 4’s Today, The World at One, PM, Front Row, and The World Tonight. Julian was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 1994 and is the recipient of a Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum (1998) the Classic FM Red Award (2005) and the Incorporated Society of Musician’s Distinguished Musician of the Year Award (2014). The two programmes combined have introduced the power of music to more than sixty thousand schoolchildren from the least privileged parts of England. In 2007, at the invitation of the Secretary of State for Education, Julian founded the UK Government’s In Harmony programme and he continues to Chair Sistema England. Julian has also inspired more than fifty new works for cello from composers as varied as Malcolm Arnold, Joaquín Rodrigo, Andrew Lloyd Webber, James MacMillan, Philip Glass and Eric Whitacre. Julian’s many recordings include his BRIT Award-winning Elgar Cello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin – chosen as the ‘finest ever version’ by BBC Music Magazine, the Dvorak Cello Concerto with Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich, a coupling of Britten’s Cello Symphony and Walton’s Cello Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields which was described as ‘beyond any rival’ in Gramophone magazine and ‘Variations’, famous as the theme to ITV’s long-running ‘South Bank Show’. He has also collaborated with a wide range of legendary musicians from pianists Sir Clifford Curzon and Murray Perahia to jazz artists Stephane Grappelli and Dame Cleo Laine and rock musician Sir Elton John. As a solo cellist, he has performed with many of the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and every leading symphony and chamber orchestra in the UK in partnership with such conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Lorin Maazel, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Neville Marriner, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir Mark Elder and Sir Andrew Davis. Julian Lloyd Webber enjoys one of the most creative careers in music today. JULIAN AND JIAXIN LLOYD WEBBER WITH MELVYN BRAGG CONCERT AND CONVERSATIONĬlick here to view a personal message from Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webberįor 2023, our opening event of the Hurlingham Festival will be a concert and conversation with Julian Lloyd Webber, his fellow-cellist wife, Jiaxin Lloyd Webber and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg.
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