Floyd Richmond

Dr. C. Floyd Richmond is a composer, arranger, music educator, church musician, and technology specialist. He has taught in public and private schools and universities since 1980. Over the years he has held positions as music teacher, band director, worship leader, church orchestra director, and choir director. He has served as a full time member of the music faculty at West Chester University, University of Valley Forge, Houghton College, and Texas A & M University at Corpus Christi. He is frequently called upon for presentations at school in-service days, local, state, national and international music conferences and at worship conferences and retreats,

Dr. Richmond is the author or editor of nine course books on music technology, and is the editor and coauthor of Hal Leonard's Technology Strategies, chapter author for Thompson's Technology Guide for Music Educators, primary author for Alfred's Composing Music with Notation, and co-author for Alfred's Playing Keyboard, and Sequencing. He is also the author of Thomas Nelson's Audio, Video, and Media in the Ministry. His most recent book is Alfred's Learning Music With GarageBand on the iPad.

He served 20 years as the chair of the education and curriculum committee for the Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME) and served as their president from 2014 to 2016. He is active with the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI), and has served as their conference chair. He teaches music technology courses around the country, and in recent years has taught at Ball State University, Boston University, Kent State University, West Chester University, Villanova University, Five Towns College, Central Connecticut University, and University of Valley Forge. He has presented at the MEA conferences of Texas, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, California, Georgia, Michigan, as well as the divisional and national conferences of NAfME. He is also a songwriter and composer with a number of original worship songs, and often travels as a performing musician playing a variety of styles from classical and jazz to contemporary worship. He played professionally with the Don Phillips Big Band for five years and often plays theater and church productions. He studied tuba with Barton Cummings and Harvey Phillips and played under gifted band directors, George Shaw, Jerry Evans, Martin Henderson, David Young, Bill Clark, Gene Ayers, and Ray Cramer. He performs publicly on trombone, euphonium, tuba, piano, guitar, and bass.