Thomas Lloyd has served as Artistic Director of the Bucks County Choral Society since 2000, succeeding the late Elma Heckler. He is also Associate Professor of Music at Haverford College (faculty homepage), where he has served since 1996 as director of the combined choral program for Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges. He has performed as guest conductor with the Riverside Symphonia (Lambertville, NJ) and the Illinois Opera Theater, and served as interim music director with the Abington Symphony (PA), the Hamilton College Orchestra, the Hamilton College Oratorio Society (NY), and is the founding director of the Cornerstone Chorale and Chamber Orchestra in New York City.

Recent Philadelphia premier performances have included David Contes Elegy for Matthew and Israeli composer Dov Seltzers Lament for Yitzhak Rabin. For the 30th anniversary of the Bucks County Choral Society he compiled the libretto for the commissioned work Rachel and her Children Small Hands, Relinquish All by Robert Maggio, funded with a major grant from the Philadelphia Music Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts. He has also recently begun a series of original compositions and arrangements for the Bucks County Choral Society.

In addition to his musical performances, Lloyd has written for the "Choral Journal". One interesting article, published in March 2007, is entitled "Hope in the Unified Language of Music: Teaching Sacred Music in a Secular Context". Lloyd also convened a panel discussion on this topic at the 2006 Eastern Division ACDA Convention.

Lloyd holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (as a bassoon major), the Yale School of Music (in voice and opera), the Yale Divinity School, and a doctorate in conducting from the University of Illinois. Following a ten-year interlude as an IT manager on Wall Street, where he rose to the level of Vice President at Prudential Securities, Lloyd returned to music and began his studies at the University of Illinois, where he completed his doctorate in 1994. In the previous year, he had been awarded first prize on the graduate level of the first American Choral Directors Association Student Conducting Awards at the organizations biennial national convention.

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