Kimcherie Lloyd
Biography
Professor Kimcherie Lloyd is currently the Director of Orchestral Studies and Opera Theatre in the School of Music at the University of Louisville where she holds the Moritz von Bomhard Endowed Chair of Music and serves as Interim Associate Dean of Students and Academic Planning. She is a past president of the College Orchestra Directors Association (2020-2022). In addition to orchestra and opera theatre, Professor Lloyd teaches instrumental graduate and advanced undergraduate conducting. Professor Lloyd holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in piano performance from Eastern Michigan University, a Master’s degree in orchestral/opera conducting from Louisiana State University, completed the Apprentice Conducting Program at the University of Minnesota School of Music and is currently finishing a PhD in Comparative Humanities (ABD). As an apprentice conductor, Professor Lloyd worked with the Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Composer’s Forum, Minneapolis Symphony and the Plymouth Music Series. In addition to her studies in the US, Professor Lloyd studied conducting with Julius Kalmar at the Conservatorium in Vienna, Austria.
Professionally, Ms. Lloyd is currently the Artistic Director of VOICES of Kentuckiana and served as Director of Music with Kentucky Opera from 1999-2007, where she was the Music Director for the Rudd Young Artist Program and Assistant Conductor/Chorus master for the main stage productions. Other past affiliations include the Louisville Orchestra, the Louisville Youth Orchestra, Music Theater of Louisville, Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, MacPhail Center for Arts, Baton Rouge Opera, Tecumseh Pops Orchestra, and the Ann Arbor Chamber Orchestra. Internationally, Ms. Lloyd has guest conducted in Vienna, Austria, Lyon, France, Katowice, Poland, San Jose, Costa Rica and Recife, Brazil, and Loja, Ecuador and Salta, Argentina. Professor Lloyd’s former conducting students hold major positions in Ecuador, Brazil, Korea, Germany and the US.
Research Interests
In addition to her performance activities, Professor Lloyd is an active researcher in comparative humanities. Her research focus pertains to the historical erasure of women in 19th and 20th century America in classical music as well as the intersection of gender and leadership. Ms. Lloyd is currently working on a biography of the international conducting pedagogue, Elizabeth A. H. Green.