![]() "I now need time to reflect and to consider this sudden and distressing life-changing situation and there will be no further comment at this time. He continued: "I have just completed two new recordings which will be released later this year but after 2 May my cello will fall silent." After attending the Royal College of Music. Celebrated cellist Julian Lloyd Webber grew up in Kensington, London with a composer father, piano teacher mother and older brother, Andrew. Solo cellist who has been described as the ‘doyen of British cellists.’. The cellist remained positive about the future, however, and outlined plans to continue in education: "I would like to use the knowledge I have gained through my life as a musician and an educator to give back as much as I can to the music profession which has given me so much over the years." Julian Lloyd Webber, Cello wizard, recent OBE recipient. Lloyd Webber was a scholar at the Royal College of Music (London) and completed his studies with Pierre Fournier in Geneva in 1973. Lloyd Webber is the second son of the composer William Lloyd Webber and is the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. He has created many of the most famous musicals of all time, including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Evita, and Starlight Express. I have had an immensely fulfilling career and feel privileged to have worked with so many great musicians and orchestras but now I have to move on." More than 40 years have passed since then but, as Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber proves, the brothers still enjoy a remarkable familial and musical relationship. Julian Lloyd Webber plays the Barjansky Stradivarius cello, dated c.1690. There were so many exciting plans that cannot now come to fruition. He commented in a press release: "I am devastated. Lloyd Webber will perform his final concert at the Forum Theatre, Malvern, on the 2nd of May with the English Chamber Orchestra. ![]() The cellist has suffered a herniated disc in his neck which has dramatically reduced the power to his right arm. Legendary cellist Julian Lloyd Webber has been forced to stop playing the cello due to a slipped disc in his neck, it has been announced.
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