Trumpeter ALISON BALSOM will become Artistic Director of Cheltenham Music Festival from early 2018.
21st December 2017
TRICIA TUTTLE, currently the Deputy Head of Festivals for the BFI, will become the London Film Festival’s (LFF) interim Artistic Director. ANNE-MARIE FLYNN, currently Head of Business & Industry, will become the LFF’s interim Managing Director. Both will be filling in for CLARE STEWART, London Film Festival Director and BFI Head of Festivals, whilst she takes a year-long sabbatical.
IMOGEN KINCHIN has been appointed Executive Director of New Adventures and will lead the company alongside Artistic Director MATTHEW BOURNE and Group Managing Director ROBERT NOBLE. She joins from Lyric Hammersmith, where she has been Senior Producer.
After 17 years in post, DAVID FLEMING has announced he will retire as Director of National Museums Liverpool from March 2018, coinciding with the end of his second term as President of the UK Museums Association. He will take up a new professorial role with Liverpool Hope University.
14th December 2017
Horsecross Arts Chief Executive, GWILYM GIBBONS, is leaving after three years in post. He will remain in place until late February 2018, then take over as Chief Executive of the Crichton Trust in Dumfries and Galloway in April.
KWAME KWEI-ARMAH, incoming Artistic Director of the Young Vic Theatre, and TAMARA ROJO, Artistic Director and Lead Principal dancer of English National Ballet, have been appointed to the board of the Creative Industries Federation.
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After two decades with the Royal Philharmonic Society, ROSEMARY JOHNSON has announced she will leave her role as Executive Director in summer 2018.
Theatre Royal Plymouth has appointed MANDY PRECIOUS to the newly created role of Engagement and Learning Director. She has been with the organisation for three years as Head of Creative Learning.
CLARE MATTERSON has been appointed Director of Engagement at the Natural History Museum and will take up work in February 2018. She is currently interim CEO of the Eat Foundation.
Formerly Commercial Director for the Really Useful Theatres Group, and International Sales Director at AKA Promotions, RICHARD HOWLE has been appointed Director of Ticketing at the Ticket Factory.