Jonathan Lloyd (born 30 September 1948) is a British composer.
Lloyd's early teachers included Emile Spira. Lloyd continued his studies at the
Royal College of Music, where he was a recipient of the Mendelssohn Scholarship. His orchestral work ''Cantique'', which he wrote whilst at the RCM, was featured in the 30-Year Retrospective of the Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM) in 1973. He continued to study composition with John Lambert and Edwin Roxburgh, as well as Henri Pousseur at Durham.
In 1973, Lloyd attended the
Tanglewood Music Center in the USA, where he studied with
Gyorgy Ligeti, and where he won the Koussevitsky Prize for his work ''Scattered Ruins''. In 1978-1979, he was composer-in-residence at the
Dartington College of Arts in its theatre department.
Lloyd began to achieve wider recognition with his 1981 work ''Toward the Whitening Dawn'', which he composed in memory of
John Lennon. He has composed works on commission from such ensembles as the
London Sinfonietta, the
BBC Symphony Orchestra, and
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. In addition to works for the concert hall, Lloyd has composed a new score to accompany the silent version of
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's 1929 film ''
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Selected compositions
Chamber ensembles
Orchestral and concertante works
Choral and vocal works
Music theatre works
* ''Musices Genus''
* ''Scattered Ruins''
References
External links
Boosey & Hawkes page on Jonathan LloydRoyal Philharmonic Society, RPS Elgar Bursary recipients page on Jonathan LloydColin Anderson, 'BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis – Jonathan Lloyd’s old racket & Tippett 4 – Stephen Hough plays Brahms'. Classical Source website, 12 April 201
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1948 births
Living people
British classical composers