Lloyd Van’t Hoff is an award-winning clarinetist, director, educator, and recording artist. He has been lauded for his “life-affirming music making” (Limelight Magazine ) and “spectacular brilliance, charisma and sensitivity” (Tasmanian Mercury). Born in Darwin, Australia, Van’t Hoff came to prominence as the winner of the Grand Prize and Sir Charles Moses Trophy, along with the Triffitt Prize in the 2015 Symphony Australia ABC Young Performers Awards. He now performs regularly at festivals around the world - the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Musica Viva Festival, Huntington Estate Music Festival, Yale-Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the International Festival of Modern Music in Beijing, the Menuhin Festival in Switzerland, the Young Euro Classic in Germany, the Grafenegg Summer Music Festival in Austria, and the Banff Centre in Canada. Van’t Hoff is a founding member of the quintet Arcadia Winds - Musica Viva’s inaugural FutureMakers - touring mainland China and performing at the BBC Proms. Arcadia are especially committed to fostering new music by Australian composers, establishing the Arcadia Winds Composition Prize, while commissioning and premiering dozens of new works by living composers. Their debut eponymous EP, Arcadia Winds, was released in 2017 on the ABC Classic label.

As a recording artist, Van’t Hoff has been featured on the ARIA Award winning album Conversations with Ghosts alongside Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly, recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey, composer James Ledger, and Australian National Academy of Music musicians. In 2021, Van’t Hoff released his solo album, Johannes Brahms: Music for Clarinet and Piano, in which his recordings were described as “interpretations that live in the memory for their verve and deep musicianship.” As recitalist, Van’t Hoff has performed at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Recital Centre, City Recital Hall, Elder Hall, Sprague Hall, Neilson Space. He collaborates regularly with some the world’s leading chamber music ensembles and musicians, including the Australian String Quartet, Goldner String Quartet, Flinders Quartet, Omega Ensemble, accordion virtuoso James Crabb, pianists Tamara Anna Cislowska, Dejan Lazic, and Lambert Orkis, principal flutist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Emily Beynon and the clarinet virtuoso Michael Collins.

A Yale University graduate, Van’t Hoff has served as teaching faculty at Melbourne University, the Yale Department of Music, and has recently been appointed to the role of Head of Woodwind, Head of Chamber Music and Lecturer in Clarinet at the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium, South Australia. He has conducted masterclasses and teaching residencies in the USA, Canada and throughout Australia and is the Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music’s Pathways Program. Van’t Hoff has been artist-in-residence at the Karlstad Universitet Muikhogskolan Ingesund in Sweden. As a featured concerto soloist with Orchestra Victoria, the Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, he has also performed principal clarinet roles with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Yale Philharmonia, and principal bass clarinet in Opera Australia, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Van’t Hoff is a Buffet Crampon endorsed performing artist.