Ronald Lloyd

He was born in London in 1929 and spent his childhood between India, Canada and England. He studied oboe and English horn at the "The Guildhall School Of Music & Drama", being at his 26 years soloist of both instruments in the "Hallé Orchestra" of Manchester, under the baton of Sir John Barbirolli. He was a pioneer in the West composing serial and minimalist music, as well as inaugurating in 1965 one of the first private recording studios in his native London, where he composed experimental works for the The Place, London ballet group. From that time he began to investigate music 1n arithmetic proportions, modal scales and enharmony, traveling through many countries of the East and residing in Greece, where I would study with an octogenarian Carl Orff, and in cities like Istanbul, Haifa and Bagdag where he would start building santures inspired by the Persian tetracordios of more than 2500 years old. In the mid 1970s he would return to Europe and in 1980 he would settle in Sitges, on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, where he founded in 1983 the "Camerata of Sitges". From that year he would meet the musician Guillermo Cazenave, who would have just founded his own label "Astral Records", with which he introduced new age music in Spain. Lloyd would participate as a guest in numerous concerts and recordings of Cazenave, at the same time to start producing most of the pieces together included in the album Parthenon finally published in 2004, in an attempt to achieve compositions and atmospheres of the ancient Mediterranean with the predominance of handcrafted instruments and tuned by Lloyd himself. Multi-instrumentalist, keyboardist, percussionist and all type the rare professional folk instruments player. Currently, Ronald Lloyd is currently retired in Surrey, in the south of England, writing his memoirs and a book on enharmonic music, which will include all his research and teachings.