Richard Lloyd is a composer and performer with over 30 years of experience as the musician for the Department of Dance and Movement Studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. He is also the Director of Music at St. James Episcopal Church in Clinton. Richard graduated from The McGill University School of Music with a B.Mus. and an M.Mus. in music composition. Among the grants he has received are three from Meet the Composer for dance-music collaborations and performance art. Richard has created three solo performance art pieces: Dick Does Poetry, What’s In the Refrigerator? and Distractions. He has collaborated extensively with choreographers, artists, musicians, and those involved with theater.
If you are interested in a collaboration using this music or other original music for a performance event, send an email to rlloydmusic@gmail.com.
Margaret Lloyd painted the two watercolors featured on this site. Bronte Country is on the Home page, and Berm of the Sea is on the album cover of Distractions. To view more of Margaret's paintings, visit her galleries at margaretlloyd.net.
Lloyd Ballet Class is an album of original piano music specifically directed to the ballet teaching community. The intention of this album is to provide an interesting, high quality listening experience for students and teachers of ballet. All of the pieces were composed and performed by Richard Lloyd, and further refined with the help of Sandra Stanton. This album, 55’03” in length, features 26 piano pieces. The tracks are titled and organized according to their function in a class, from Plies to Reverence, though many will have multiple purposes. Each piece consists of from 4 to 10 groupings of 16 beats, corresponding to the needs of a standard ballet exercise.
Sandra Stanton provided valuable advice in the refining of the album Lloyd Ballet Class. She has over 15 years of experience teaching classical ballet, and is currently teaching at Hamilton College. Sandra earned her B.F.A. in Dance from The Juilliard School and toured for some years internationally as a professional dancer with Twyla Tharp’s dance company THARP! She has successfully completed the ABT Teacher Training Intensive in Primary-Level 7 of the ABT National Training Curriculum.