30th June 2020
SUNITA PANDYA is joining Tara Arts as Chair. Currently Director of Artistic Partnerships, Planning and Administration, and Deputy Chair of Battersea Arts Centre, she also sits on the Executive team at the Southbank Centre, which she joined over 6 years ago as Producer.
Birmingham Opera Company has announced that conductor ALPESH CHAUHAN (pictured) is joining the organisation as Music Director, to work alongside Artistic Director GRAHAM VICK. Chauhan’s career has taken him from Principal Cello with the CBSO Youth Orchestra to regular appearances as a guest with acclaimed British orchestras and internationally. He made his UK opera debut in 2019 with Birmingham Opera Company, the...
Arts education consultant MARY HEYLER (pictured) has become the new Chair of Music in the Round. She leads a board of ten trustees, nine of whom are female: charity accountant JAN BONAR, music leader JUDITH ENNIS, solicitor-advocate ELLEN GALLAGHER, music psychologist DR JANE GINSBORG, pianist CHRISTOPHER GLYNN, retired Professor of Medicine...
DAVID REECE, previously Director of Consulting Services at Baker Richards, has become Deputy CEO, working alongside CEO Robin Cantrill-Fenwick.
21st June 2020
As founder RENNA KELLAWAY prepares to retire from Lake District Summer Music after 35 years, STEPHEN THRELFALL has been appointed as its new Artistic Director from October 2020. A cellist, conductor and creative director of artistic projects, he stepped down from his role as Director of Music at Chetham's School of Music last September after 24 years in post.
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER SMITH, currently Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews and formerly Director of the British School at Rome, has been selected as the Government’s preferred candidate to be the new Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He will replace PROFESSOR ANDREW THOMPSON in September.
The new Chief Executive and Artistic Director at dance development agency Dance City will be ANAND BHATT (pictured), who takes over CEO responsibilities from IAN MCKEOWN and Artistic Director responsibilities from PHIL DOUGLAS, who will continue in their roles as Financial Director and Creative Producer respectively. Bhatt was most recently Executive Producer at Aakash Odedra Company in Leicester...
Southbank Centre has announced the appointment of three new members to its Board of Governors: President of Since ‘93 record label and diversity in music champion GLYN AIKINS; Chief Investment Officer of Man Group, SANDY RATTRAY; and film and TV Lawyer and Executive Producer LISBETH SAVILL, a partner in the London office of Latham & Watkins.
PROFESSOR LYNDSAY DUTHIE will be the new CEO at the Production Guild of Great Britain. A film and television executive who worked for ITV and Endemol before founding her own company, Ice Blue Media, since 2018 she has been Head of School for Film, Media and Performing Arts and Head of Farnham Campus at University for the Creative Arts. She will start her new role in August, taking over from previous CEO ALISON SMALL...
14th June 2020
Multimillionaire PR specialist ROLAND RUDD will succeed Lionel Barber as Chair of Tate on the conclusion of his term in January 2021. A Trustee of Tate since 2017, Rudd was elected by other trustees in a private ballot.