19th January 2017
TIM WOOD, former Marketing Director at Rambert, has become the Arts Marketing Association’s new Chair. He has been an AMA board member for seven years, and Vice Chair since 2012.
GRAHAM VICK CBE, Founder and Artistic Director of the Birmingham Opera Company, is to become the Royal Northern College of Music’s first International Chair of Opera from September 2017.
Artistic Director of LIFT since 2009, MARK BALL has been appointed Associate Artistic Director at Manchester International Festival. He will start full-time from June.
KATE MILLINGTON and TRUDY LISTER have joined Youth Music Theatre, becoming Fundraising Officer and Development Consultant respectively, as part of the organisation’s new Development team.
Previously Theatre Critic and Arts Journalist at the Independent on Sunday and The Times, KATE BASSETT has been appointed Literary Associate at Chichester Festival Theatre.
After five years in the role, UK Music Chief Executive JO DIPPLE is to step down in June 2017.
13th January 2017
Labour MP TRISTRAM HUNT has been appointed Director of London’s V&A museum. The politician, who has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Education, is a regular history broadcaster, lecturer and the author of several books.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a founder of the Stoke-on-Trent Literary Festival and a Patron of the British Ceramics Biennial. He has previously served as a trustee of the...
12th January 2017
Director of Aberystwyth Arts Centre since 2013, GARETH LLOYD ROBERTS has decided to step down to go to “pastures new”.
GEOFFREY ROWE, Chief Executive of the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham since 2006, is to leave the organisation at the end of March to pursue other interests and work on freelance projects.
Chief Executive of First Family Entertainment, KEVIN WOOD will be steppping down at the end of the pantomime season after 12 years with the company. Associate producers LAURA TAYLOR and GEORGE WOOD will also be leaving the company to pursue new opportunities.