Scottish Ballet’s Artistic Director CHRISTOPHER HAMPSON is to also take the role of the company’s Chief Executive, following on from CINDY SUGHRUE, who recently stepped down.
2nd July 2015
LESLEY JACKSON is to leave her current role as Executive Director of Phoenix Dance Theatre in Leeds to join Jazz North as Executive Director.
Current Chief Operating Officer at the Serpentine Gallery IAN DIXON is to join Shakespeare’s Globe as Chief Finance and Operations Officer. JOANNA MACKLE and DANIEL HEAF are to join the board as trustees.
The director and writer GBOLAHAN OBISESAN will replace NATALIE ABRAHAMI as the Young Vic’s Genesis Fellow.
London Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director, SIR SIMON RATTLE, is to be the Artist-in-Association with the Barbican Centre and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
LADY SUSAN RICE is to step down as Chair of Edinburgh International Book Festival in October. Former Special Correspondent at the BBC, ALAN LITTLE, will take over from her.
LORD SUMPTION, Deputy Chair of the Royal Academy of Music, and NICK ADDYMAN, founder member of the Parabis Group, are to join the ENO board with immediate effect.
ADAM SMYTHE is to join Bluecoat as the new curator, from Lombard Method gallery in Birmingham, of which he was a co-founder.
Following the departure of CHRIS SUDWORTH to the Old Rep theatre, NICK WALKER has been appointed as Director of the Core at Corby Cube.
MARK SMITH is to end his six year stint as chair of the Birmingham Hippodrome Development Trust, to be succeeded by MARTIN GUEST.