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The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the May 2021 issue
Without question, Julian Lloyd Webber has had an enviable career. The British cellist, who celebrated his 70th birthday last month, worked with everyone from Yehudi Menuhin to Yan Pascal Tortelier to Neville Marriner during the first four decades of his professional life, his diary an abundance of recording and performing engagements. Yet Lloyd Webber’s career has also encompassed another important strand – an unfailing commitment to music education. Although it was a terrible blow, the injury that forced him to retire as a performer in 2014 also allowed him to build on the work of his In Harmony programme, bringing music to children in disadvantaged areas, and to become principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2015. Today, Lloyd Webber is reinventing himself again, as a conductor – and as he tells Julian Haylock on page 24, his passion and enthusiasm for music remain as strong as ever.