Howard Barnes, currently Head of Arts and Theatres at Medway Council, will take up the new post of Head of Culture with Southwark Council in July. His remit will include responsibility for arts and culture, museums and heritage, events and film.
Nick Giles has been appointed into the newly created post of Deputy Director (Administration) at the Oxford Playhouse. He was Centre Director at Riverside Studios for five years.
Tiebreak Theatre Company has announced that Dianne Hancock will succeed David Farmer to become the company?s second Artistic Director in its 24-year history. Her appointment follows a recent teaching fellowship at Bretton Hall and four years as Associate Director of young people?s theatre company, SNAP.
Dominic Dromgoole (pictured), Artistic Director of the Oxford Stage Company for the last seven years, is to succeed Mark Rylance as Artistic Director at Shakespeare?s Globe.
Director of engage since 1995, Christopher Naylor will be taking up a new post as Knowledge Transfer Director in the Cultural Policy team at City University in September.
The new Chairman of the Society for Theatre Research is Ian Herbert, who was founder and now consultant editor of Theatre Record, and is President of the International Association of Theatre Critics.
Rhiannon Burgess (pictured), previously Marketing Co-ordinator at Chester Gateway Theatre, is now an Account Manager at Vision, a creative and marketing communications consultancy in Manchester.
The London Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointment of Valery Gergiev as its Principal Conductor from January 2007, to succeed Sir Colin Davis as the LSO?s fifteenth Principal Conductor.
Philip Esler has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is currently Professor of Biblical Criticism at St Andrew?s University and was previously a litigation solicitor and then a barrister in Australia.
Helen Dunnett (pictured), Head of Marketing at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, is leaving to take up the position of Director of Marketing at the Royal Northern College of Music. Australian Matthew Coorey is to become the Orchestra?s first Conductor in Residence.
Dr Goéry Delacôte (pictured), a French scientist and science educator, will be the new Chief Executive for At-Bristol, the South West?s flagship science centre. For the past fifteen years he has been Executive Director of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Professor John Durant, the present Chief Executive of At-Bristol, is leaving to become a Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Michael Seal, currently a violinist in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, has been appointed as the Orchestra?s first Assistant Conductor.
Tiina Taatila is the new Festival Manager for Wirksworth Festival.
Martin Palmer has been appointed as Director of Stagecraft Theatre Services, a new subsidiary of staging and live events company Stagecraft, which will be supplying and installing lighting and sound equipment to the arts and entertainment sector.
Paul Kildea is leaving Wigmore Hall to concentrate on his freelance conducting career. John Gilhooly, Executive Director, will take on the artistic responsibilities there on an interim basis until Spring 2006.
Michael Kuhn has become Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Independent Cinema Office. He is also Managing Director of Qwerty Films and Chair of the National Film and Television School.
Richard Gray, Director of Compton Verney, is leaving to pursue work with clients in the landscape and architecture fields, and Graham Greene, formerly Chairman of the Trustees of the British Museum, will succeed Janatha Stubbs as Chairman.