Michael Ockwell has been appointed Chief Executive at the Grand Opera House, Belfast. He will take over from John Botteley, who announced his retirement in June.
Birmingham Royal Ballet has appointed Koen Kessels (pictured) as its music director. He has worked with companies including the Opera National de Paris and the Royal Opera House covent garden. The company has also appointed Simon Harper as its Media and Public Relations Manager.
John Kieffer is the new Creative Director at Sound and Music. He has been Chair of Artangel and Head of Music and Director of Performing Arts for the British Council.
George Perrin and James Grieve will succeed Roxana Silbert as Joint Artistic Directors of Paines Plough. They were previously Joint Artistic Directors of Nabokov
Theatre company, and will take up the post in February 2010.
Iniva, the Institute of International Visual Arts, has appointed its interim Chief Executive, Tessa Jackson, as Chief Executive Officer. She is the founding Artistic Director of Artes Mundi, Wales’s international visual art exhibition and prize, and was Director of the Scottish Arts Council until 2001.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art has appointed Peter Buchan as Chairman of the Board. He has been acting Chairman since July. Laurence Sillars also joins, as Chief Curator.
Stephen Feeke is now Administrator/Curator at the New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Art Gallery. He moves from the Henry Moore Institute where he was most recently Curator (Exhibitions).
Hannah Kerr joins The Jerwood Charitable Foundation in the new role of Communications Manager. She was previously Communications and Marketing Manager at London International Festival Of Theatre (LIFT).
Roanna Chandler has left Glyndebourne, where she was marketing manager, to become Concerts Director for the London Philharmonic Orchestra.