David Lloyd-Jones
David Matthias Lloyd-Jones, born November 19, 1934, in London, England, was a
British conductor specializing in British and Russian classical repertoire. He
studied musicology at Magdalen College, Oxford, before starting his career in
1959 as a répétiteur at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 1961, he made
his professional conducting debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra. He was appointed assistant music director at Sadler's Wells Opera in
1972, where he conducted Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace. In 1977, he became
the founding music director of Opera North...
