Lloyd Powell

Lloyd Powell (22 August 188825 March 1975) was an English, later Canadian pianist and teacher.

Career Lloyd Ioan Powell was born in Ironbridge, Shropshire in 1888. His parents were Welsh. He studied at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London from the age of 10. His teachers were Marmaduke Barton (piano; a student of Bernhard Stavenhagen), Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (composition) and Sir Frederick Bridge (counterpoint). He won the Hopkinson Gold Medal for piano performance and the Dannreuther Prize for the best piano concerto performance. South Africa,

Before 1922 Lloyd Powell had given one of the earliest performances of John Ireland's Piano Sonata. In 1927, Thomas Dunhill, a friend of Powell's, dedicated his 4 Pieces for Piano, Op. 69, to him.

Having examined in Canada for many years, he moved to Toronto in 1951, and settled in Vancouver in 1954. He appeared throughout the country in recitals, made broadcasts on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, He performed for Jeunesses Musicales Canada in 1966–67.

Lloyd Powell died in Vancouver in 1975, aged 86.