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Team & Board

About Our Director

Carol Main MBE is Director of Live Music Now Scotland and Live Music Now International Development. She is responsible for the overall management of the branch. She leads on the international development of Live Music Now for the UK, as well as the LMN International Co-operation Group, whose activities include exchange of artists with branches in Austria, France, Germany and the Netherlands, sharing best practice, supporting new and emerging branches in the network and raising the profile of the scheme internationally.

A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, having studied Music and English, Carol is a Board Member of Creative Scotland and a Governor of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Chair of The Night With…, Vice-Chair of the Traditional Music Forum and a board member of the European Federation of National Youth Orchestras. Carol has also served on the boards of the Association of British Orchestras, Voluntary Arts Scotland and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, of which she was a director for almost 20 years. She is a past Chair of both Enterprise Music Scotland and Hebrides Ensemble. Carol also works as a freelance journalist, mainly as founding Classical Music Editor of The List, music critic for The Scotsman and a restaurant reviewer for The List Eating and Drinking Guide.

Carol was awarded an MBE for services to music in 2015.

Our Team

Carol Main MBE

Director (Live Music Now Scotland & Live Music Now International)

carol.main@livemusicnow.scot

Lesley-Ann Smith

General Manager (Full-time)

lesleyann.smith@livemusicnow.scot

Alison Fraser

Part-Time (2.5 days)

alison.fraser@livemusicnow.scot

Jennifer Orr

Accounts Assistant, Part-Time (2 days)

jennifer.orr@livemusicnow.scot

Katie Rush

Project Manager, Part-Time (2 days)

katie.rush@livemusicnow.scot

Amy Strachan

Project Administrator, Part-Time (2 days)

amy.strachan@livemusicnow.scot

MAlena Persson

Communications Manager, Part-Time (2 days)

malena.persson@livemusicnow.scot


Patron, President & Board of Trustees

PatronHis Majesty The King

Chair of trustees —Amanda Forsyth

Board Members

  • Alistair Dinnie
  • Katy Fennema
  • Amanda Forsyth
  • Peter Freedman
  • Susie Gray
  • Marianna Hay
  • Lesley Johnston
  • Kenneth Law
  • Professor Alasdair MacLullich
  • David McLellan
  • Sam McLellan
  • Issy Lockhart
  • Hector Scott

Live Music Now in England, Northern Ireland and Wales

For more information about our sister organisation, Live Music Now Ltd, and its work in England, Northern Ireland and Wales visit livemusicnow.org.uk