SARAH THIRTLE, Head of Business Lending Programmes at Creative United, and LOHAN PRESENCER, Chairman of Ministry of Sound, have joined Music Venue Trust’s board of trustees.
Former member of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, STEPHEN PEOVER has been elected Chair of the Board of Directors of Ulster Orchestra. He succeeds SIR GEORGE BAIN, who has retired after five years in post.
Independent curator THERESA BERGNE has joined arts and health consultancy Willis Newson as Associate Curator. She is joined by artist MONIQUE JIVRAM, who has been appointed Project Manager.
SOPHIE CORNELL, currently Exhibitions Manager at British Council, is to become Programmer of Talks and Events at the National Theatre. She will continue in her part-time role as Executive Producer of Undercurrent.
After five years as Arts & Cultural Development Officer at Scottish Refugee Council, SUZI MACIVER is to leave to take up the role of Creative Events Producer with Renfrewshire Council.
HELEN SHUTE, formerly Executive Director and a Founder of Hofesh Shechter Company, will become Chief Executive and Executive Producer at Rambert from March 2017.
FRANCK BORDESE, previously Executive Director for Siobhan Davies Dance Company, is to become Executive Director at Luca Silvestrini’s Protein from January 2017.
The Royal Northern College of Music has appointed DR JOHN HABRON (pictured), previously Senior Lecturer in Music at Coventry University, as Head of Music Education.
Formerly Staff Director at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, WALTER SUTCLIFFE is to become the new Artistic Director of Northern Ireland Opera from February 2017.
Head of Creative Programming at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, ANDREW MILLER, is to join Royal & Derngate Theatres as Executive Associate from January 2017.
