8th November 2019
As CLARE O’HARA leaves to become Director of the Cowley Road Trust in Oxford, LIZ HUGHES joins Cambridge Junction as the new Head of Development to lead on fundraising for community and creative learning programmes and plans for developing the building and organisation. Previously at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, where she was Executive Director, Hughes has also worked as a consultant, and was the Creative...
John Ellerman Foundation, the independent endowed funder that will this year make grants of £5.6m for arts, environment and social action activity, has announced SUFINA AHMAD as its new Director, replacing current Director NICOLA POLLOCK, who is stepping down. Ahmad leaves the City of London Corporation, where she is Corporate Strategy Manager. She has previously held grant making roles with City...
NICK THORNE will take on the leadership of Orchestras for All from January 2020 in the role of Executive Director. The organisation provides opportunities for ensemble music-making for 11-18 year-olds with complex lives, and Thorne joins following leadership roles at Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Dorset Music Hub and most recently as Head of Partnerships at the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He takes over from...
Chief theatre critic at the Guardian, MICHAEL BILLINGTON, is stepping down after 48 years with the organisation. At nearly 80 years old he is one of the UK’s longest-serving drama critics. He will continue reviewing until Christmas, after which he will continue to contribute regularly to the Guardian’s UK and international theatre coverage.
ROD PEACOCK, previously Vice Chairman International Investment Banking for J.P. Morgan & Co., and CLAIRE JACKSON, Chief Finance Officer of a group of primary schools on the Wirral, have been appointed to the Board of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society. As part of its Keychange pledge for gender balance in music, the organisation now has a board with a 50/50 gender balance.
1st November 2019
CHRISTOPHER HAYDON, who was Artistic Director at the Gate Theatre from 2012 to 2017, and prior to that Associate Director at the Bush Theatre, will become Artistic Director at Rose Theatre Kingston from the start of next year. As the creative lead, he will be responsible for the Rose’s artistic vision, creative programming and delivery of performance, as well as overseeing the company’s learning and participation programmes....
Welsh National Opera has announced that YVETTE VAUGHAN JONES has been appointed as Chair of the Board, the first woman in the Company’s history to hold that role. She will shortly be stepping down from her current roles as Chief Executive of Visiting Arts and Chair of No Fit State Circus. Her earlier career in the arts has included working for independent arts organisations, the Arts Council of Wales, local authorities and Welsh...
AMANDA HUXTABLE is to become the new Artistic Director and CEO of Eclipse Theatre, succeeding DAWN WALTON, who stepped down earlier this year after 10 years at the helm. Huxtable, a theatre director based in the North of England, was Artistic Associate at Hull Truck Theatre and is Chair at RJC Dance in Leeds. She is...
SARAH GEE, co-founder of the creative sector consultancy Indigo Ltd, is Spitalfields Music’s new Chief Executive. With a background in fundraising and marketing, she served on the board for six years until 2014 and has also worked for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Former CEO Eleanor Gussman stepped down in 2018 to pursue a freelance career following her maternity leave. ...
Music entrepreneur and CEO of Punch Records, AMMO TALWAR MBE will replace KEITH HARRIS OBE as chair of the Equality and Diversity Taskforce for UK Music, the body which represents the UK’s commercial music industry. RACHEL BOLLAND will succeed FELICITY OLIVER as UK Music’s Head of Diversity. Bolland will remain as Director of Operations and Oliver will continue as Head of...