Frank Lloyd (horn player)

Frank Lloyd ( born 1952 in Cornwall ) is a British horn player.

His first musical experience made Lloyd at the age of thirteen years with the trombone in his school brass band and then moved to the horn. He first played in the Royal Marines Brass Band and then studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Ifor James. Just three months after the start of the study, he was principal horn of the Scottish National Orchestra, now the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

From 1979 to 1982 he was principal horn of the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, he devoted himself to chamber music as well as his solo career. He was, among other things regularly as a horn player in the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Nash Ensemble.

He was also a professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Trinity College of Music, both in London. 1998 Lloyd was appointed as successor to Hermann Baumann professor at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen.

Lloyd from 2005 to 2006 Chairman of the International Horn Society and in 2011 was re-elected to this post.

• Classic horn
• University teachers ( Folkwang University, Essen site )
• Briton
• Born in 1952
• Man