27th April 2018
JEMMA NEVILLE, Director of Voluntary Arts Scotland, is back in post following a nine-month sabbatical. Neville’s leave was covered by Kathryn Welch, who joined on secondment from Macrobert Arts in Stirling and will now take up a new role as Operations Director for Macrobert.
JUDITH ELKIN, recently retired as deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Worcester, has been appointed Dancefest's new chair of trustees. Elkin is currently a Trustee of Malvern Theatres, and has previously chaired Worcestershire Arts Partnership and the Elgar Birthplace Trust.
Classical music management company HarrisonParrott has announced that LORNA AIZLEWOOD will join the firm in the newly-created role of Chief Operating Officer. She has previously been global Chief Operating Officer and general counsel for IMG Artists, and has held senior in-house executive positions at EMI & Virgin Classics, Universal Music, Island Records, and BBC Worldwide.
North Shields arts company Helix Arts has appointed SUSIE BATEY as Creative Producer. She joins the organisation from Sage Gateshead, where she was data and evaluation manager.
26th April 2018
Roxana Silbert charts her career from drama school to Artistic Director of Birmingham Rep.
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.