Richard Llewellyn
Chief Executive Officer
Email: richard@techmusiced.org.uk
Richard’s musical career started in 1981 as a trumpet player in the British Army. Following this, he joined Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers in 1990 where he was appointed as the Sales Executive, spending a lot of his time visiting shops within the UK and mainland Europe. After a brief time at International Music Publication, Richard joined Yamaha as a Regional Manager in 2001 within the Acoustic Division. During this role, he looked after sales of brass and woodwind instruments for shops in the South-East of England. In 2006 he was asked to join the American company ‘MakeMusic’, a company that specialised in notation software. Within his position as the International Sales Manager, he travelled extensively, dealing with global distributors all around the world. In 2009, Richard joined Notion Music as the Sales Director and helped build up this notation programs international presence, which led to the company being purchased by PreSonus in 2013. At PreSonus, he became the Education Manager for the EMEA territory, leaving in 2014 to work on various free-lance projects. These included, Music Futures (Business Development Coordinator), Piano Adventure (UK Marketing Consultant), UCan Play (helping grow the Connect: Resound distant learning platform) and writing for various music magazines, including the Music Teacher Magazine and the Music Teachers Association (MTA). Following a brief time of working part-time as Steinberg’s UK Education Specialist, in 2015 he was offered the full time role of UK Education Manager for Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.
With over 30 years in the music education business, Richard brings a lot of experience into his role as Executive Director of TiME.