His orchestral work Cantique, which he wrote whilst at the RCM, was featured in the 30-Year Retrospective of the Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM) in 1973.
[1] In 1973, Lloyd attended the Tanglewood Music Center in the USA, where he studied with Gyorgy Ligeti, and where he won the Koussevitsky Prize for his work Scattered Ruins.
[1] Lloyd began to achieve wider recognition with his 1981 work Toward the Whitening Dawn, which he composed in memory of John Lennon.
He has composed works on commission from such ensembles as the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
In addition to works for the concert hall, Lloyd has composed a new score to accompany the silent version of Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film Blackmail.