Australian-born percussionist Rebecca Lloyd-Jones is a multiform musician, passionate about performance, research, and education. She is a Lecturer at Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, a Marimba One Education Artist, and was the Artistic Director of Synergy Percussion from 2023-2025.

Praised as “captivating” (San Diego Union-Tribune), Rebecca has performed professionally across Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania, presented at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, and held residences at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada. Active across many genres, Rebecca has performed on the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage in conjunction with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight marathon new-music festival, at the BBC Proms, Concertgebouw Concert Hall, and The National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing.

Rebecca has performed with the PARTCH ensemble, ensemble Red Fish Blue Fish, and Hong Kong-based percussion quintet Up:Strike Project. She participated in the soundSCAPE composition and performance exchange (Italy), IMPULS (Graz), was a guest artist and tutor at the VI Semana Internacional de Improvisación, Festival de Música Nueva 2019, Ensenada, Baja California (Mexico), and was an adjudicator for the IPEA International Percussion Competition held in Hong Kong in 2024.

With an extensive research portfolio, Rebecca has received funding from the American-Australian Association Arts Fund, the Creative Arts Research Institute (CARI), and was awarded the 2025 Elizabeth Wood Musicology Research Fellowship from the University of Adelaide, Elder Conservatorium. She presented her research at the Transplanted Roots Research Symposium from 2017 to 2019 and served as the artistic producer for the 2022 symposium in San Diego, USA. Alongside her research, Rebecca is an accomplished composer, with works released on labels such as Populist (Los Angeles), New Focus Recordings, and MADE NOW MUSIC, and her compositions published in the AMEB percussion syllabus.

Rebecca graduated from the Victorian College of Arts with the Desma Woolcock award for academic excellence, received a Master of Music Research from the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, and holds a Doctorate from the University of California San Diego with Distinguished Professor Steven Schick.