19th April 2018
Professor HELENA GAUNT, currently Vice Principal and Director of Innovation at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, has been appointed as the new Principal at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama She will take over from Interim Principal, Professor George Caird, in September.
CEO of Tate Enterprises Ltd, LAURA WRIGHT, has been appointed as CEO of The Postal Museum from June. Currently a member of Tate’s Directors Group and management teams of Tate Modern and Tate Britain, she succeeds SIMON OPIE, who has been interim CEO at the Museum since founding director, DR ADRIAN STEEL, stepped down in December 2017.
LOUISA BARTLETT-PESTELL will join artsdepot as Director of Programming in June, leaving the Southbank Centre where she has been programming performances, projects and festival activities. Chair of Dance Woking and Founder and Artistic Director of Arts Odyssey Ltd, she succeeds Artistic Director KERRY ANDREWS, who has left the venue after 10 years in post to become Head of Performance at Brighton Dome &...
CHRISTINE BRADWELL has been appointed Chair of contemporary opera company Music Theatre Wales, succeeding GERAINT DAVIES CBE, who has stepped down after eleven years. Bradwell is retiring from her role as Chief Executive at Anvil Arts in Basingstoke, which has a long-standing artistic association with Music Theatre Wales and will host the UK premiere of its next production in October.
LEAH BLACK has left Creative Scotland, where she was a Creative Industries Officer with a specialism in craft, to join community-led arts charity and social enterprise WHALE Arts in Edinburgh as their new Chief Executive. She takes over from ALLAN FARMER who is moving to a new job as Head of Place with the Corra Foundation.
13th April 2018
National Dance Company Wales has appointed FEARGHUS Ó CONCHÚIR as Artistic Director from September. Choreographer, performer, teacher and mentor, he most recently worked as Artistic Director of The Casement Project, part of Arts Council of Ireland’s centenary commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising.
The new Chief Executive of the Royal Philharmonic Society will be JAMES MURPHY, currently Managing Director of Southbank Sinfonia. He takes over from ROSEMARY JOHNSON who is stepping down after twenty years.
NANCY IRESON, Curator of International Art at Tate Modern since 2015, has been appointed as the Deputy Director for collections and exhibitions and Gund Family Chief Curator for The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Her new post will start in August.
ALISON MILLAR, Communications Officer at Arts Council England, is leaving after four years to work as a publicist within BBC Arts.
STEPHEN SORRELL, Director of Northgate Investment Management and trustee of HOME, has been announced as the new Chair of Trustees for Inner City Music Ltd, the charity that owns and operates Manchester’s Band on the Wall. KAREN GABAY, from BBC Radio Manchester, has also joined the board.