PLASA, the Professional Lighting and Sound Association, has appointed PETER HEALTH as its new Managing Director.
7th April 2016
Scottish Ballet Assistant Artistic Director HOPE MUIR has been appointed Artistic Director of Charlotte Ballet in North Carolina. She will take up the role from July 2017.
31st March 2016
ROBERT HASTIE will become Artistic Director at Sheffield Theatres when DANIEL EVANS leaves to join Chichester Festival Theatre at the end of June.
ANNE BONNAR has been appointed Chair of Collective as it redevelops Edinburgh’s City Observatory Calton Hill as a contemporary visual art space. She succeeds JAN-BERT VAN DEN BERG.
The National Youth Jazz Collective’s new Executive Director is ANDY THORNTON. Formerly a professional musician, he has been CEO of the Citizenship Foundation for the past five years and has also run Greenbelt Festival.
SARAH CHAMBERS will be joining The Audience Agency as Consultancy Director. She has worked in the arts for more than 19 years, most recently as an arts marketing and management consultant specialising in marketing strategy, audience insight, CRM and business planning.
Rich Mix has appointed EDDIE BERG as Chief Executive, replacing JANE EARL, who leaves after six years in post to take on non executive roles. Berg worked previously at the British Film Institute and was Founder and Chief Executive of FACT (the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool.
24th March 2016
Music Director MARK WIGGLESWORTH is to leave English National Opera (ENO) at the end of the 2015/16 season after less than a year in the role. He will return for two guest conductor productions in the 2016/17 season.
Cultura London, the charity taking charge of Harrow Arts Centre, Headstone Manor Museum and Harrow Music Service, has appointed SANDRA BRUCE-GORDON as its new Chief Executive. She will begin the role from Monday 4 April.
Previously Regional Director of the Arts Council in the West Midlands, ROS ROBINS has become Chair of the Board of Pentabus Theatre after joining the board a year ago. She replaces DIANE LENNAN who led the company for three years.