![]() ![]() Greater Birmingham might sprawl but its city centre is surprisingly concise. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire © C Hufton&Crow He was launching the scheme to award licences to approved buskers by playing a selection of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s songs in Westminster station just after rush hour. In May 2001 Lloyd Webber was granted the first busker’s licence on the London Underground. The combination of careful attention to purpose-built detail, together with an over-arching vision of artistic and educational ambition, has delivered a lasting monument to the cultural investment of the City and the University. The new building is in the heart of the City’s learning quarter, on the border between Birmingham and Aston. It acts as a cultural hub, contributing to the performing and visual arts within the city and region, as well as for students of the University. A combination of fine and larger scale diffusion and sound scattering treatments cover the walls and work to produce a rich, even and diffuse sound field. The five venues each have their own particular character, visually and acoustically, the Concert Hall being the most complex. The aim was to create acoustic environments that would be amongst the very best in the world. It houses five performance venues: a concert hall with the capacity of 500 seats and a full orchestra, a 150-seat recital hall, The Lab – a ‘black box’ experimental music space, a 100 seat organ studio and the Eastside Jazz Club – as well as 70 practice rooms of various sizes. In September 2020, in recognition of his tenure, Lloyd Webber was appointed Emeritus Professor of Performing Arts by Birmingham City University.Īrchitects: Feilden Clegg Bradley ( The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire ’s new state-of-the-art home is the first purpose-built music college to be constructed in the UK since 1987 and is the only one in the country which has been specifically designed to cater for the demands of the digital age. Julian Lloyd Webber OBE is a British solo cellist, conductor and broadcaster, a former principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the founder of the ‘In Harmony’ music education programme. In 2012 Ben was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in recognition of his significant contribution to the music profession.īen play’s on a late 17th century cello by the dutch maker Cornelius Kleymann.Julian Lloyd Webber, Solo cellist/conductor ![]() Extra work with chamber orchestras, include London Mozart Players, City of London Sinfonia, BBC concert Orchestra and Irish Chamber Orchestra. He continues to enjoy the variety of the freelance scene which has included work in the theatres of London’s West End, seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, tours with Shirley Bassey (including a memorable performance on the main stage of Glastonbury in 2007 ) a tour of Europe with Peter Gabriel, film and pop session work, being a former member of the Graham Fitkin Group and the Opus 20 String Ensemble. ![]() He is also a member of the cello sections of the Glyndebourne on Tour and Garsington orchestras and has been guest principal cello at Longborough Festival Opera. ![]() Since 2000 Ben has been Principal Cello of the English Touring Opera orchestra, including seasons of baroque opera performed on period instruments and the Olivier Award winning production of King Priam in 2014. He has recently been invited by Julian Lloyd Webber to give a masterclass at Birmingham Conservatoire. Former prize winning students include Sheku Kanneh Mason, BBC’s Young Musician of the Year 2016.īen has participated in educational projects with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Opus 20 String Ensemble, English Touring Opera and the Apollo Chamber Orchestra. He has prepared students for entrance to all of the UK’s conservatoires. Following initial positions as cello teacher in the 1990’s at Marlborough College, Wells Cathedral School and the Guildhall school of Music, Ben has, since 2000, taught cello and chamber music at Royal Holloway University of London and the junior department of the Royal Academy of Music, as well as teaching privately from his home in London. ![]()
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