Jeremy Newton (pictured), founding Chief Executive of NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), has stepped down after seven years in the job. The Deputy CEO, Janet Morrison, will temporarily fill his role.
Jane Allsopp will join Birmingham Conservatoire in the role of Business Development Manager. She was formerly Project Administrator at Symphony Hall and Arts Liaison Officer for Birmingham City Council.
The Drum has appointed Charles Small as its new Chief Executive. Currently an interim Director for Northampton Borough Council, he was previously Director of Arts & Leisure Services at the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
The new Chair of the Yorkshire Regional Arts Council is Janet Barnes, Chief Executive of the York Museums & Gallery Trust. She follows Sir Norman Adsetts in this role and also becomes a member of Arts Council England?s national Council.
Camilla Nicholls, formerly Director of Communications for English National Opera and an independent consultant, is the new Head of Communications for Frieze, the magazine publisher and organiser of the Frieze Art Fair.
Author and former Chairman of the Scottish Book Trust and Bishop of Edinburgh, Dr Richard Holloway has been appointed as the new Chair of the Scottish Arts Council.
Kate Bush is joining the Barbican Centre as Head of Art Galleries. She is currently Editorial Director at Phaidon Press, and was previously Senior Programmer at The Photographers? Gallery.
David McLaughlin, Acting Chief Executive of the Millennium Forum in Derry, has been officially confirmed as Chief Executive.
Julie Hanna has been appointed by Liverpool Culture Company as the UK?s first Creative Health Manager. She has worked within the NHS for 20 years in occupational therapy based in York, Leeds and Merseyside.
Christopher Deans is the 2005 Scottish Arts Council Playwriting Fellow at The Traverse Theatre.
Arts & Business has appointed Clare Goddard as Head of Professional Development. She was previously Artistic Director of the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich.
Alan Seaman has taken over Live Programming duties at Phoenix Arts in Leicester, and Ros Hill has joined the venue as Customer Services Co-ordinator.
The new Music Director at English National Opera (ENO) will be Oleg Caetani, currently Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He will replace Paul Daniel who leaves the ENO at the end of the current season.
Amanda Jones, Director of Media and Public Relations at the Barbican, Helen Shute, Projects Co-ordinator for Woking Dance Festival, Jeanette Hoskins, previously Tour Manager for Dance Umbrella, and Suzanne Walker, Vice-Chair of Dance UK, have been selected to take part in the Senior Dance Managers? Fellowship Programme, hosted by Rambert Dance Company, The Place, Dance Umbrella and Sadler?s Wells.
Nod Knowles (pictured) has been announced as the new Chief Executive of Bath Festivals Trust. He will leave his current post as Head of Music at the Scottish Arts Council to return to Bath, where he was previously Acting General Administrator of what was then the Bath Festival Society.
Raymond Fullerton has been appointed as a member of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, replacing Adrian McDowell who resigned last year.
Sir Ian Wrigglesworth, Chairman of NewcastleGateshead Initiative?s bid for the Capital of Culture designation, has been appointed as the new Chair of the Board of BALTIC. Artist Antony Gormley, arts writer Andrew Graham-Dixon, Exhibitions Secretary and public face of The Royal Academy, Norman Rosenthal, and Curator Isabel Vasseur are joining the Board.