3rd December 2020
Counterculture Partnership LLP has appointed JANE FINNIS and ALAN ROBERTS as partners. Finnis joins to head up the new Digital & Audience Engagement service for the cultural consultancy company and Roberts will further develop its interim management and consultancy services across the students’ union and education sectors.
Finnis is CEO for Culture24 and is a digital expert with over 30 years’...
Sinfonia Cymru has appointed regular orchestra member SIMRAN SINGH to its board. She is a Leader of the Kaleidoscope Orchestra, a co-founder of Manchester Collective, and is currently studying for a Masters in composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music.
LAURENCE CUMMINGS is joining the Academy of Ancient Music from the 2021/22 season as Music Director. He is currently Artistic Director of the Internationale Händel-Festpiele Göttingen, Musical Director of the London Handel Festival and Music Director of Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música in Porto. He’s conducted productions at major houses across Europe and in the UK has been a regular at English National Opera, Glynebourne Festival...
27th November 2020
Independent regulatory compliance and governance specialist CAROLINE MAURICE and Executive Director of Music in the Round, Sheffield JO TOWLER are joining the board of Orchestras Live as new trustees. Maurice is a classical music enthusiast and harp player, and Towler has worked in the arts for over 20 years – the majority of which is in classical music, working for several years with the London Mozart Players,...
MATTHEW DWYER joins the Basingstoke-based Proteus Theatre Company as General Manager where he will be responsible for managing the Creation Space - a community arts centre run by Proteus. He has previously worked as administrative producer at Shoreditch Town Hall, theatre programmer at The Pleasance, and managed multiple venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The Quebec Government Office in London has appointed INGRIED BOUSSAROQUE as its new Director for culture. She joins from Montreal company Art et musique La Mandragore where she was CEO for twenty years and was involved in many cultural collaborations in the UK, Scandinavia and Europe. The QGOL’s cultural team works to develop international cooperation, partnerships, exchange and residency programmes between Québec and the UK,...
Former publisher and editor of Virago Press LENNIE GOODINGS will lead Poet in the City as Chair of its board of trustees. Currently a trustee of the poetry charity, she takes over from SARAH DAVIES who steps down after serving eight years as a trustee, five of which were as Chair.
KAREN LIVINGSTONE and NEAL SPENCER will join University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum as it embarks on a period of transition early next year. Livingstone will be the museum’s first Deputy Director for masterplan, exhibitions & major display projects. She joins from the Science Museum Group where she was responsible for developing and delivering a masterplan for each of the museums in the group since...
20th November 2020
Co-director at East Street Arts EMMA BEVERLEY has been appointed as Executive Producer for Leeds 2023. She was part of the team who developed the original programme for what was set to be Leeds’ bid for European Capital of Culture 2023, before UK-based bids were discontinued in light of Brexit.
LUCY WARREN is joining Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra as its new Head of BSO Participate at the end of the year. Currently Senior Producer/Head of Engagement at The Albany, she previously spent several years leading music workshops with Internationale Musikschule Berlin before returning to the UK to join the South London arts centre.