7th December 2018
Herts Inclusive Theatre’s (HIT) chair, PATRICK MOLONEY, is retiring from the role after 17 years. GAYLE BRYANS, a trustee at HIT and Deputy Director of Mousetrap Theatre Projects, will take over as Chair.
Chetham’s School of Music has announced that TOM REDMOND, who has performed with orchestras including the Hallé, the CBSO, Philharmonia and the LSO, will succeed STEPHEN THRELFALL as director of music from September 2019.
GLENN HOWELLS, Chair of the Ikon Gallery for 11 years – and a Birmingham Hippodrome Trustee since 2012 – has been appointed Chair of the Hippodrome.
DR NICOLA TRISCOTT, currently the Artistic Director/CEO of Arts Catalyst, which she founded in 1994, has been announced as new Chief Executive Officer of FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology).
ROBERT ASHCROFT will leave collection society PRS for Music in December 2019, ten years after joining. PRS introduced a new live music tariff under his watch.
PAUL LEWIS has decided to step down as co-Artistic Director of the Leeds International Piano Competition to concentrate on his international performing career. ADAM GATEHOUSE becomes the sole Artistic Director of The Leeds.
30th November 2018
MATTHEW XIA, previously Associate Artistic Director at the Royal Exchange Theatre from 2014-17, and soon to direct performances at Hampstead Theatre, The Orange Tree and Nottingham Playhouse, has been appointed Artistic Director of Actors Touring Company (ATC). He will take up the position part-time in December 2018 and will be in place full -time from March 2019, leading alongside ATC’s Executive Director ANDREW SMAJE...
Professor TOM INNS has stepped down as Director of Glasgow School of Art after five years in charge, which spanned two major fires at the Mackintosh building. In his place, the school has appointed Professor IRENE MCARA-MCWILLIAM, who had been acting as joint interim Director alongside Professor KEN NEIL, after Inns left last month.
JOHN FISHER, who has been the Hodge International Chair in Opera at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, has been appointed as the first Artistic Director of the college’s David Seligman Opera School.
After ten years in Cambridge, most recently as Business Development Director for Cambridge Live and previously as Arts and Events Manager for Cambridge City Council, ELAINE MIDGLEY has been appointed Director of Bedford Creative Arts.