Thomas Lloyd is a classical conductor, composer, and singer who currently serves as Canon for Music and the Arts at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral (since 2010) and Artistic Director of the Bucks County Choral Society (since 2000). He is Emeritus Professor of Music at Haverford College, where he directed the combined Choral and Vocal Studies Program for Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges from 1996-2018. The premier recording of his 70-minute choral-theater work Bonhoeffer by Donald Nally and The Crossing was nominated for a 2017 Grammy in the Best Choral Performance category. He has composed four other longer works and over 40 shorter choral and solo voice compositions setting both sacred and secular texts.

Lloyd’s compositions have also been performed by ensembles including the University of San Diego USD Choral Leadership Collaboratory & Sacra/Profana, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, the Asheville (NC) Choral Society, Lyric Fest, the Keystone State Boychoir, the Bel Canto Children’s Choir, the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church Senior Choir, and the Philadelphia Singers.

Lloyd has led twelve international choir tours involving collaborative concerts with local choirs. His Haverford/Bryn Mawr chamber choir has shared concerts with host choirs in Berlin, Mexico, Turkey, Ghana, Poland, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, as well as with the HBCU choirs of Howard, Lincoln, and Fisk Universities. He has led the Bucks County Choral Society on tours to Estonia (for the Estonia Song Fest), Russia, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia, Brazil, and Cuba. Choirs under Lloyd’s direction have performed at conferences of Chorus America and the American Choral Directors Association. He also founded a nationally recognized “Singing for Seniors” program with the Bucks County Choral Society, bringing together senior choirs from all over the county for biannual festivals, with revered children’s choir conductor Helen Kemp as co-leader.

Lloyd has published and presented scholarly articles on topics including the African-American spiritual, sacred jazz in the tradition of Ellington, the music of Hans Gal, Edward Elgar, and how to initiate cross-cultural collaborations. Lloyd holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory (BM bassoon), Yale Divinity School (MAR pastoral theology), and the Yale School of Music (MM voice and opera), and the University of Illinois (DMA conducting).

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