Sir SIMON RATTLE is leaving his post as London Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director to join Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich as its new Chief Conductor. He will succeed MARISS JANSONS who passed away in December 2019.
Rattle’s initial agreement with LSO expires in 2022 but he has agreed to extend has stay for a further year, and will have led the orchestra for 8 years before taking up his new role...
Dance Base Scotland has announced ROBERT DAWSON SCOTT as its new Chair of the board. He has extensive experience serving at board level and in the arts sector he is a Council Member for the Scottish Society of Playwrights and was Founder, first Convenor and Director of the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland.
As a playwright, he has had work produced at Mull Theatre, Gilded Balloon and Play, Pie and a Pint. Much of his...
YAW OWUSU will oversee and lead PRS Foundation’s new initiative that aims to power up Black music creators and industry executives, due to be announced later this month. The position will form part of the PRS Foundation’s Senior Management Team to integrate the programme learnings and actions across the organisation. He joined the organisation as programme consultant in August.
Yaw is also a Director and Executive Manager...
AMANDA HUXTABLE is leaving Eclipse Theatre to pursue other interests, after just over a year in the Artistic Director post. Having succeeded founder and Artistic Director DAWN WALTON, who stepped down after 10 years mid-2019, she has since been navigating the challenges of the pandemic and establishing the company in its new home in...
Global Director of Digital Content at BBC Studios ROSIE ALLIMONOS has been appointed Chair of the Board at Boundless Theatre, succeeding outgoing Chair CHARLES GLANVILLE. Prior to her role at the BBC she was Head of Creative Partnerships at Facebook and Instagram; Head of Original Channels and Content Partnerships at YouTube across Europe, Middle East and Africa; Commissioner for BBC Drama, Films &...
Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN) has announced MOIRA JEFFREY as its new Director. Originally joining in 2017 as Advocacy and Development Lead, she played a key role in developing SCAN’s flagship Curatorial Leaders in Collections programme and its annual Summits. Prior to joining SCAN she established a caree r in the Scottish visual arts sector, with roles in arts journalism and broadcasting, public funding, development...
Senior Producer at The Royal Ballet, AMANDA SKOOG is the new Chair at One Dance UK. She joins the organisation with experience in the dance industry that includes previous roles as Chief Executive at Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and the Royal New Zealand Ballet, dance educator at English National Ballet and Assistant Director at Central School of Ballet. She replaces SUE WYATT who stepped down last year after four...
FIONA STURGEON SHEA, currently Director of Playwrights’ Studio, is joining the Federation of Scottish Theatre as its new CEO. She has been with the studio since 2011 and has held several senior positions across the UK arts and cultural sector, including two stints at Scotland’s new writing theatre, the Traverse; Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre; the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, Surrey; and as Head of Audience & Organisational...
LUCY DUSGATE has joined Leeds Dance Partnership as its new Partnership Director. An experienced cultural producer, she joins the partnership from her most recent role as Art Programmer/Producer at The Lowry. Her past work includes two commissions with Phoenix Dance Theatre for NVA’s Speed of Light and Honour; two Motionhouse outdoor performances; and work with individual artists including Darren Pritchard, Dickson Mbi and Mac...
Theatre Centre has appointed ROB WATT as Artistic Director alongside EMMA REES as Executive Director. Both were appointed to their respective roles in an interim capacity and will now become permanent additions to the company.
Watt’s inaugural season as Interim Artistic Director saw the launch of an online writing programme for young aspiring talent and ImagiNation, a digital anthology created to unite the...