Michael Clark Company has appointed BRANISLAV HENSELMANN as Executive Producer. He joins from DanceEast where he was Head of Programming and Learning.
MADELEINE LOVELL will become the Hallé’s first female Choral Director when she takes up post in January, replacing JAMES BURTON. FRANCES COOKE has been appointed Associate Choral Conductor.
Woking Dance Festival has a new Executive Producer, SAM MCCAFFREY. She was previously Head of Community & Development at HQ Theatres.
KATE ORGAN is the new Chair of Pentabus Theatre’s Board of Directors. She is The Baring Foundation’s Arts Adviser and also works freelance.
BEE SKIVINGTON and HAMISH HOYLE have joined Mind the Gap. Skivington is Theatre Worker and Hoyle has joined through the Creative Apprenticeship scheme in the role of Events Assistant.
LAURA SILLARS has been appointed as the new Director of Sheffield’s Site Gallery. She will succeed Carol Maund, who stepped down in September. Sillars is currently Programmes Director at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT).
IVAN LEWIS, MP for Bury South, has replaced BEN BRADSHAW as Shadow Culture Secretary, with GLORIA DE PEIRO and IAN AUSTIN as Shadow Ministers.
DECLAN MCGOVERN will become Chief Executive of the Ulster Orchestra from January 2011, on secondment from BBC Northern Ireland where he is Executive Producer, Music. He will take over from DICK MACKENZIE, who has been Interim Chief Executive since DAVID BYERS left in September.
Derby QUAD has five new members of staff: DAVID THOMAS CRAWLEY, Education Curator; ROBERT COLBERT, Commercial Manager; EMMA WEATHERDON, Development Manager; EMMA WOODWARD, Engagement Officer and JILL CARRUTHERS, Programme Assistant.
AUBREY ADAMS is to succeed SIR JOHN TUSA as Chairman of the Wigmore Hall Trust in May 2011.
The Arts Marketing Association (AMA) has appointed JO TAYLOR, Head of Marketing and Communications at Wales Millennium Centre, as Chair of the board. ANDREA PERSEU has left the AMA to become Marketing and Development Officer at Bernie Grant Arts Centre.
Sheffield Theatres has announced that ANDREW LORETTO will be joining the company as Creative Producer. He was previously Director of Chol Theatre in Huddersfield, where JENNY WILSON has replaced him as Interim Associate Director.
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance has appointed WALTER REITER as Head of Early Music.
STEPHEN REID, currently Project Programme Director at Imperial College London, is the new Deputy Rector for Strategic Development at University of the Arts London.
Conductor, pianist and composer STEPHEN BARLOW has taken over from ANDREW GREENWOOD as Artistic Director of Buxton Festival.
SARAH KEKUS is the new Chair of the National Association of Music Educators, taking over from ROB NASH.
The Independent Dance Manager’s Network has appointed JOE BATES as Chair, succeeding GWEN VAN SPIJK. CLAIRE MORTON has joined the executive committee as Secretary.