NAOMI SHOBA has been appointed Senior Arts & Music Manager: Diversity by Glasgow Life, which manages arts spaces including Tramway and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
The new Chair of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) is JOHN DERRICK, who has held senior roles at Barclays and Goldman Sachs, and is currently Chair of RWCMD’s London advisory group.
Currently Controller of BBC Radio 3 and formerly Chief Executive of the Arts Council, ALAN DAVEY has joined the board at the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
CHRISTINA HILL, STEPHEN SKRYPEC and JENNY MALE have joined the TRG Arts UK and Europe team as Senior Consultant, Consulting Analyst and Administrator respectively.
The 256-seat Stantonbury Theatre in Milton Keynes has selected LUCY CUTHBERTSON as its new Artistic Director. She replaces HILARY RHODES, who had since 2000 been Arts Development Manager at the theatre.
Northampton’s Royal & Derngate has appointed FRANCES HOLLOWAY, a Board member on Network Rail’s Finance Committee; civil servant BERNIE LALLY; former Headteacher KAY ROBERTS; and Literary Manager at the Donmar Warehouse, CLARE SLATER, as membe
JON GILCHRIST, the Bush Theatre’s Executive Director since 2014, is to step down from the post at the end of 2017. He will work as a consultant in cultural regeneration from the Autumn.
Former Controller of Radio 1 ANDY PARFITT has announced he will step down as Chair of Youth Music in December 2017, after completing five years in the role.
KATHRYN WELCH has become Interim Director of Voluntary Arts Scotland, taking up the role for 9 months on secondment from her role as Development Manager at the Macrobert Arts Centre in Stirling.
CELIA JOICEY, Head of the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, is to join Dovecot as its new Director. She replaces DAVID WEIR, who departs after a 17-year leadership.
