5th March 2024
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) has announced SARAH BARDWELL as its new Managing Director, replacing JAMES WILLIAMS who will leave the RPO at the end of the current season.
Bardwell will join the orchestra ahead of the 2024/5 season.
Bardwell is currently Executive Director of Britten Pears Arts - the music, arts and heritage charity based in Aldeburgh and Snape Maltings in Suffolk...
4th March 2024
MATHEW SWANN has been appointed the new Director of the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Swann was Chief Executive of City of London Sinfonia from 2012 until 2021 and has worked with Orchestras Live (OL) for over a decade as a partner and lately as a trustee. He has co-authored two reports on Orchestras in Healthcare for OL, the most recent of which was published in February 2024.
A classical music producer and curator, he is...
It’s 25 years since Ian Kerry founded Arts Alive, an organisation bringing film and events to rural communities. As he contemplates stepping down from the role, he reflects on a rich journey.
KATE MOSSE and SHOBI KHAN have been named Board Members of the British Library by the Home Secretary JAMES CLEVERLY
The new trustees began their four-year terms on 1 March.
Khan is the CEO of Canary Wharf Group. Previously, he served as President and COO of American commercial property company GGP Inc and as US Chief Investment Officer at Bentall Kennedy. He has also sat on the board...
1st March 2024
Oxford Playhouse has appointed seven new trustees to its board.
ADAM KNIGHT, ALBIE RAY, DEBBIE RICHARDS, ELLIE CLAUGHTON, GILL AITKEN, RD JASKIRAN KAUR and MICAELA TUCKWELL were recruited in an open process led by Chair DEBBIE DANCE and Vice Chair JOE PILMAN.
Currently, Chief...
NICOLE YIP has been appointed as the new Director of Spike Island gallery in Bristol.
Currently Chief Curator of Exhibitions & Live Programmes at Nottingham Contemporary, Yip will take up her new position at Spike Island in June.
She succeeds ROBERT LECKIE, who recently joined Gasworks in London as Director.
Professor JUDITH SQUIRES, Chair of Spike Island’s Board of...
Tara Theatre has announced NATASHA KATHI-CHANDRA as new Artistic Director and joint CEO of the South Asian theatre company.
Kathi-Chandra, who joined the theatre in 2022 as Associate Director, takes on the role from ABDUL SHAYEK who was Artistic Director until his death in August 2023.
Executive Director and Joint CEO, HELEN JEFFREYS said: "Natasha’s artistic vision and programming...
29th February 2024
DEVYANI SALTZMAN has been appointed as the Barbican's new Director for Arts and Participation.
Saltzman is a Canadian writer, curator, public thinker and cultural leader with over fifteen years' experience in cultural institutions. She will take up her new role in early July.
Working with the Barbican’s leadership team – across Cinema, Creative Collaboration, Immersive, Music, Theatre & Dance and Visual Arts -...
Afro Queer artist and filmmaker TOPHER CAMPBELL has joined the UK’s longest running LGBTQIA+ arts and culture festival, Homotopia, based in Liverpool, as its new Director and CEO.
The former artistic director and CEO of The Red Room Film and Theatre Company, and the co-founder of the ruckus! Archive, Campbell has a strong background in curating and commissioning new work and has recently been commissioned to...
MIRANDA CROMWELL and HANNAH JOSS have been named as Associate Directors at Chichester Festival Theatre.
An award-winning director, Cromwell has directed shows at various theatres including the Olivier, the Young Vic and the Kiln in London, and Manchester Royal Exchange and Nottingham Playhouse. At Chichester she will work with the acting and creative companies.
Joss's new role will focus on ...