While maintaining an active career as a baritone, music educator, conductor, and award-winning composer, Shavon Lloyd has been praised as an “uber-talented” (Times Herald Record) artist. Lloyd recently received his Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The Juilliard School in New York City, where he performed in multiple productions, including Händel's Atalanta (Nicandro - cover), Purcell's King Arthur (Grimbald/Cold Genius), and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi (Betto). He has also performed in several professional productions, most recently covering the role of Il Sagrestano in Puccini's Tosca and Simon in an all-Black production of Joplin's Treemonisha (Opera Theatre of St. Louis). In 2024, he made his Opera Saratoga debut as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls. Lloyd recently made his European debut in Geneva, Switzerland, singing as the baritone soloist in the premiere of Everyone, Everywhere, written by Daron Hagen and commissioned by The United Nations. He has received several prizes in opera/musical theatre performance, including Opera Ebony and Opera Index, and winning the grand prize in The Classical Singer Competition for Pre-Professionals in Musical Theatre. Regarding his compositions, Lloyd has won grand prizes in several competitions, including the Manhattan Choral Ensemble’s New Music for New York Competition (2015), the 18th Street Singers’ Composition Contest (Washington, D.C., 2018), and the Orpheus Chamber Singers Commissioning Competition (Dallas, TX, 2020). His works have been performed internationally across the United States, Canada, South America, and, most recently, Africa. He received his Bachelor of Music in Music Education from The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. Since then, he has been sought after as a guest conductor and vocal clinician at the K-12, collegiate, and professional levels. Lloyd currently lives in New York City, where he is a Senior Associate Conductor for the National Children’s Chorus, a frequent guest clinician and conductor, and an international performer of both classical and musical theatre repertoire.