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. ==References==