12th August 2021
Journalist and broadcaster SUZY KLEIN is set to become the BBC's new Head of Arts and Classical Music TV.
Klein is a previous winner of the William Hardcastle Award for Journalism and began her broadcasting career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
She has worked in production with Radio 4 and has hosted BBC Proms, The Culture Show and BBC Young Musician of the Year.
Manchester International Festival Creative Director MARK BALL is the new Artistic Director at the Southbank Centre.
Reporting to CEO ELAINE BEDELL, Ball will deliver the centre's artistic strategy.
"I’m keen to build on the unique legacy of the Southbank Centre... and build a bold, inclusive and collaborative international programme that’s seared with artistic innovation and experiment," Ball said....
HOLLY RACE ROUGHAN will be the first female Artistic Director of Headlong.
The theatre company this week announced the appointment of the director and producer, who co-created Signal Fires, a festival for touring companies, during the pandemic.
Race Roughan joined Headlong as Associate Artistic Director in 2019 and is board member of her former employer Kestrel Theatre Company, which provides arts opportunities in...
DR STEPHEN FELMINGHAM has been promoted to the position of Academic Dean at Plymouth College of Art.
Previously Head of School of Critical and Cultural Studies, Felmingham will take over the position from Professor PAUL FIELDSEND-DANKS in the coming academic year.
Felmingham has extensive experience in arts education, having worked at University College Falmouth, Norwich University of the Arts and...
The University of Oxford's music faculty has appointed ROSALIND VENTRIS as its new Director of Performance and Performance Studies.
A viola player, Ventris has enjoyed an international career as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher and researcher.
"There is enormous potential to build connections and spark new ideas between the many different communities across the city and university," she said.
Ventris...
11th August 2021
International theatre company Cheek By Jowl has appointed AJAY CHOWDHURY and CATRIN GRIFFITHS to its board of directors.
Chowdhury has a history in tech entrepreneurialism as a Founder, Chair or CEO of companies like Shazam, Seatwave and LineOne. He has also served on the board of Arts Council London, DCMS, Index on Censorship and Historic Royal Palaces.
The Sunday Times recently selected him as one...
STEFAN KALMAR is leaving the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London after five years at the helm.
Kalmar, who believes top roles at museums should be fixed tenures, is the institution's first non-British Director. He succeeded GREGOR MUIR, leaving New York's Artists Space gallery in 2016.
He oversaw several major exhibitions at ICA and launched a new live performance programme, Temporal...
10th August 2021
Tunbridge Wells' Trinity Theatre has named SEAN TURNER as its new Artistic Director.
Turner is Associate Director on The Play That Goes Wrong and will direct his first production at the Trinity Theatre this Christmas.
He previously directed Arthur Miller's No Villain and curated New Normal Festival last summer.
The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh has named TARI LANG as its new Chair.
Lang will succeed SHONAIG MACPHERSON, who has spent nearly nine years in the post.
She was previously CEO of London's Edelman and subsequently co-founded ReputationInc and The Lang Consultancy.
Lang is also a board member of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society and the National Galleries of Scotland.
PAUL BAUMANN is to become Chair of Academy of Ancient Music’s board of trustees from next month.
A board member since June 2018, Baumann is a former Chief Financial Officer of NHS England and current Receiver General and Chapter Clerk of Westminster Abbey.
He replaces outgoing Board member PHILIP JONES, who served on the board for eight years, including four years as chair.