Now Co-Director of both a major arts centre in Madrid and BE FESTIVAL in Birmingham – roles he shares with his partner Isla Aguilar – Miguel Oyarzun reflects on his career to date.
TINA SPEED has been appointed Grants and Programmes Manager at PRS Foundation. She has previously worked for Arts Council England, London Sinfonietta and the Society for the Promotion of New Music.
WILLIAM NORRIS, currently Managing Director at Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir in Canada, will become the new Managing Director of Southbank Sinfonia next month.
Currently Head of Communications at English National Opera, ANNIE LYDFORD is leaving the organisation to become Head of Communications and Marketing at the Creative Industries Federation.
SIR HUGH ROBERTSON, previously Olympics Minister and currently Chair of the British Olympic Association, has been appointed Chair of National Lottery operator Camelot’s board of trustees.
Head of Creative Direction & Innovation at Historic Royal Palaces DEBORAH SHAW has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury.
MELANIE PRECIOUS, who spent two years as Creative Producer for Luca Silvestrini’s Protein, has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Greenwich Dance. She will take up the role in September.
KRISHNA THIAGARAJAN will take up a new appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Seattle Symphony in America, leaving his role as Chief Executive of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in September.
Less than two years after taking up a post as Executive Director of Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, MARK DOBSON has announced he will be stepping down to “pursue other interests”.
CAROLE WINTER, who set up and ran the education departments for both the National Theatre and the English Shakespeare Company, has been appointed the first ever in-house producer at Tunbridge Wells’ Assembly Hall Theatre.
Currently General Manager and Head of Operations at Summerhall in Edinburgh, SAM GOUGH will join Glasgow’s Tron Theatre as Executive Director in September. He replaces LESLEY RENTON.
Digital producer JON PRATTY, formerly Relationship Manager for Digital and the Creative Economy at Arts Council England, has been appointed as the new Chair for the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive.
Most recently Executive Director of Candoco Dance Company, and previously Executive Director of Protein Dance, JO TOWLER has been appointed as the new Executive Director of Sheffield-based promoter Music in the Round.
IAN ABBOTT, an independent writer and producer who has worked with 2Faced Dance in a freelance capacity for the past year, has been appointed as the Hereford-based organisation’s Executive Director.
