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.[1] 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.[1]