Julian Lloyd Webber addresses the Prime Minister directly on Instagram in an impassioned …

Julian Lloyd Webber has directly addressed the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham on Instagram in an impassioned post on a subject very dear to the world-renowned cellist’s heart, namely the perilous plight of music education in schools. It is well over twenty-five years since Julian, together with Dame Evelyn Glennie and Sir James Galway, first launched the Music Education Consortium to campaign for all children to have access to music in school.  Musicians from all music genres such as Adele, Sir Elton John and Dame Elaine Paige have since joined forces with other classical musicians such as Nicola Benedetti and Sheku Kanneh-Mason to speak out about how music empowers children and the positive changes that happen when music is put at the heart of school life.  Julian Lloyd Webber – former Principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire – referred to the time when, as Culture Secretary, Andy Burnham visited ‘In Harmony’ Liverpool – one of the first of the ‘In Harmony’ music education programme initiatives founded in 2008 by Julian – and saw first hand the transformative effect that access to music was having on the children.  Julian laments the lack of progress in getting music added to the school curriculum and how fewer children than ever before have
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