Jonathan Lloyd (composer)

Jonathan Lloyd (30 September 1948 – 31 July 2025) was a British composer. Life and career Lloyd’s early teachers included Emile Spira. He 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 in Durham. In 1973, Lloyd attended the Tanglewood Music Center in the US, where he studied with György 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. In 1986 he collaborated with the music critic Michael White on a large-scale community opera, The Adjudicator, for the village of Blewbury, Oxon. Lloyd died on 31 July 2025 at the age of 76. Selected compositions Chamber ensembles * Airs and Graces * Almeida Dances * Ballad for the Evening of a Man * Ben’s Boogie * Brass Quintet * Dancing in the Ruins * Don’t mention the War * The Five Senses * ‘Go Bl