Biography:

Nicholas Alastair Lloyd Webber (2 July 1979 – 25 March 2023) was an English composer and record producer. He was the son of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and his first wife, Sarah Hugill.^[1]

Life and career

Lloyd Webber was known for scoring the BBC One drama Love, Lies and Records (Rollem Productions), a theatrical and symphonic version of The Little Prince based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (co-written with James D. Reid), which premiered at the Lyric Theatre Belfast and Theatre Calgary before headlining the Abu Dhabi music and arts festival with the Heritage Orchestra, and for the 2017 musical Fat Friends The Musical, which premiered at the Grand Theatre in Leeds and subsequently toured the UK in 2018. It was planned to tour the UK again in 2022 but was postponed.

Lloyd Webber scored the film The Last Bus (Hurricane Films 2021), directed by Gillies McKinnon and starring Timothy Spall and Phyllis Logan.

Lloyd Webber produced the Andrew Lloyd Webber Symphonic Suites at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, released by Decca Records in 2021. He co-produced and mixed the Cinderella album for Polydor Records, which went to number 1 in the official UK compilation album charts in July 2021.

Lloyd Webber also wrote music for television advertisements.

Personal life and death

Nick Lloyd Webber was the son of British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and his first wife, Sarah Hugill.^[2] His older sister is the author, broadcaster and communications executive Imogen Lloyd Webber, his grandfather was the composer William Lloyd Webber and his uncle, the cellist and music educator Julian Lloyd Webber.

Lloyd Webber married his partner, viola player Polly Wiltshire, in June 2018.^[3] He was the father of two children.^[1]

Surrounded by his family,^[4] Lloyd Webber died at Basingstoke Hospital after suffering from gastric cancer for 18 months, on 25 March 2023, at the age of 43.^[5][6]

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