Before World War II, his family was evacuated and moved to West Wales to live on a farm.
On his 10th birthday, his father took him to his first orchestral concert, at the Royal Albert Hall, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Other notable Opera North productions which he conducted included Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet, Borodin's Prince Igor, Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Berlioz's Les Troyens, Richard Jones's staging of The Love for Three Oranges, a double-bill coupling (as at their first performances) of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and The Nutcracker – the latter choreographed by Matthew Bourne of Adventures in Motion Pictures – and the world premiere of Wilfred Josephs's Rebecca.
He also appeared in major cities throughout Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Israel, Japan, Australia and the Americas.
[6] As an editor, he produced a revised edition and translation of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, published by Oxford University Press in 1969.
[3] Later projects included the 1984 Ernst Eulenburg (London) miniature full score—in its critical edition—of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers.
[7] In June 2009, Lloyd-Jones conducted a professional recording of Arthur Sullivan's grand opera Ivanhoe for Chandos, which was released in 2010 and was nominated for a Grammy Award.