23rd January 2024
PAUL MURPHY has been announced as Music Director alongside his current role as Principal Conductor at Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Murphy will succeed KOEN KESSELS as leader of the company’s orchestra, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, on 1 July.
A member of Birmingham Royal Ballet for 31 years, Murphy was appointed Principal Conductor in 1997. During his time with the company, he has worked...
Contemporary music group Riot Ensemble has announced a new artistic structure to lead its future work.
Conductor, co-founder and current Artistic Director & CEO AARON HOLLOWAY-NAHUM will be joined by two members of the ensemble as co-Artistic Directors in the leadership team. They are violinist MARIE SCHREER and pianist and co-founder ADAM SWAYNE.
Together with Creative Producer...
19th January 2024
Theatre Témoin, a physical theatre company based in the South East, has appointed ABBIE WILLCOX to be its new Executive Director and CEO.
She assumes the role from AILIN CONANT who will join New Earth Theatre as Artistic Director later this month (January).
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18th January 2024
ALEX SOBEL has been elected to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.
The cross-party Culture, Media and Sport Committee scrutinises the work of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and its associated public bodies, including the BBC, examining government policy, spending and administration.
Sobel is the Labour (Co-op) MP for Leeds North West and has been an MP continuously since June 2017.
He was...
JOE BROOK will become Director of Bradford's Peace Museum, joining from National Museums Liverpool as Head of Creative Studios.
Brook takes up post in February, ahead of the organisation's move to new premises in World Heritage Site Salts Mill, Saltaire.
He has over 25 years of experience in the museum and heritage sector, with over a decade at Bradford's National Science and Media Museum.
“Now more than...
Opera Singer DONALD MAXWELL joins the Board of Directors at Welsh National Opera (WNO).
Maxwell has been a professional opera singer for more than 45 years, making his debut with WNO in 1982, and over the next 35 years gave over 500 performances with the Company in 30 different roles.
He has also been closely associated with WNO audiences as President of the WNO Friends.
Previously, Maxwell was Director of...
17th January 2024
Royal Ballet School will create a full-time Chief Executive Officer role for the first time as part of a new management structure instigated by the school's Governors.
As the search for a CEO continues, Chair of Governors CHRISTOPHER RODRIGUES CBE will act as interim CEO with immediate effect, allowing CHRISTOPHER POWNEY to fulfil his role as Artistic Director until his...
Nonclassical has named MIRANDA JOHNSON Executive Director (Maternity Cover).
During her tenure, Johnson will be responsible for devising and delivering a work programme across the events, label and artist development programmes.
Johnson takes up post following the completion of her Clore Fellowship and after eight years with Britten Pears Arts.
At Britten Pears Arts, she was Director of Business and...
Barbican has announced PHILIPPA SIMPSON as Director for Buildings and Renewal and BEAU VIGUSHIN as Director for Audiences.
Both will take up their new roles in the spring of this year.
Simpson joins from the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), where she currently sits on the Executive Board as Director of Design, Estate and Public Programme.
She has delivered projects including the...
15th January 2024
New Earth Theatre has named AILIN CONANT Artistic Director (AD), replacing outgoing AD KUMIKO MENDL.
The theatre company presents and develops with British East and South East Asian (BESEA) artists.
A Japanese-American freelance director, Conant is currently Associate Director on My Neighbour Totoro with the RSC and Improbable and is the founding AD of Theatre Témoin. She is a...