Yes, there was a huge amount of music – My father composing, mother teaching piano, musician friends coming round all the time. I wonder what the Lloyd Webber household was like, full of music I guess. We took her to see my brother’s show Cat, and she is obsessed about it. But music would not be a career for him, he is more into politics. He goes to the opera and did play the cello for a while. Seems that it is natural for a Lloyd Webber to become a musician. I interviewed him for newspapers and got to ask him all kinds of questions. When Rostropovich came into my life, playing the cello became my dream. The older I got, the more I am interested in the instrument, and I even became obsessed with collecting unknown cello pieces. I thought if I tried another instrument, I could skip the piano. My mother tried to start me on the piano, but I hated it. I love this approach to the instrument.ĭid you choose the cello or the instrument chose you? Rostropovich wrote in the programme note, which affected me most, he wrote, ‘in our time the cello is a tribute or an orator’. He gave nine concerts in London, playing fourteen concertos. Rostropovich also had a great influence on me. Who would you regard as a role model? Your teacher, Pierre Fournier?įournier was the aristocrat of the cello! He was a lovely man. It basically changes his life and now he even begins to talk better. ![]() ![]() In school, he learns to play the clarinet, then he plays in youth orchestras. It brings massive change in family life.Ĭredit: Simon FowlerI remember that there was a child in Newcastle who had speech problem and could hardly talk. Parents have pride in their children when they see them performing on stage. And in the poorest area, there is drug, unemployment these are big problems, but music helps in changing the community. In the UK, the poor community has not got access to classical music, or never had a chance to listen. It changes the atmosphere in school: difficult child becomes better, it brings harmony in school. The principle is that the whole school plays music together, including teachers, even cook, and students all sit and play together. In harmony, survived the change of government and has been very successful. Galway, Glennie, and I are passionate about music education, and we formed “Music Education Consortium” in 2003. Would you tell us about In harmony, which is a music education program based on Venezuela’s El Sistema? The Vivaldi we are doing in the concert is a good idea because it is a complete change in the course of the evening, showing the other side of what the orchestra can do.Īpart from performing, you are also passionate in music education. So I would say that English music is in my blood, but I also love Russian music. My parents were very involved in music both studied with Vaughan William at the Royal College of Music, Herbert Howells was my godfather, and my mother studied with a close friend of Elgar. Would you say that you have an affinity with English music? I really like chamber music.Įnglish music seems to be your core repertoire. I also enjoy making music with the players, listening a lot to what they are telling me. I enjoy conducting because these are music which I know so well and loved. I am doing all the conducting in the concert. The principal cello of the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong does the first cello part. Different from the recording, Howard’s music is played by my wife, and it is the first time for her. The concert is built around the recording, which was just released with the English Chamber Orchestra. ![]() Would you tell us about the special elements in this concert? Julian Lloyd Webber came to Hong Kong with his cellist-wife Jiaxin, to perform with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, here he talks about English music, his mentors, his family, his passion for music education, and a genuine love for life. Being simply a cellist is not enough for Julian, he believes in the power of music education, which can change people’s life and bring harmony in the society. It was not until later that he found the love of his life, the cello. Although music was in the household, the little Julian hated his first instrument, the piano. Credit: runs in the blood of the Lloyd Webber family his parents were students of the great Vaughan William at the Royal College of Music, his godfather was the English composer Herbert Howells, and of course, his elder brother Andrew is a world famous composer for musicals.
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