He continued his musical studies at Colchester Institute and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he won the Michael Beech Conducting Award, Principal's Prize, Salveson Baton and the silver medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

[4] In the same year, he conducted performances of Keith Johnson's, It's a Beautiful Night from Here to the Trembling Stars with the Scottish Ensemble in Glasgow.

[7] Since 2010, Lloyd-Gonzalez has been based in Germany, where he has held positions with the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt,[8] Sinfonie-Orchester Bad Nauheim[9] and Capitol Symphony Orchestra Offenbach.

[12] Writing in his double five-star BBC Music Magazine review, David Nice wrote, "The BBC National Orchestra of Wales has never been on finer form …", and "the sonorous directness at the start of the Sixth is up there with the best … and Lloyd-Gonzalez doesn't miss a trick or dynamic in Shostakovich's encyclopedia of moods and contrasts.

[14][15] The one-off fundraising concert was organised by Fabian Narkus of the Channel Aid Charity under the auspices of the FABS Foundation.