Ulster Orchestra has appointed JOANN FALLETTA as its new Principal Conductor. She is the first American to hold the post since 1966, and the first ever female.
Professor of English at Oxford University, LAURIE MAGUIRE has been appointed as a trustee of Shakespeare’s Globe.
ANDREW BREWERTON, Principal of Plymouth College of Art and Honorary Professor of Fine Art at Shanghai University, has been appointed by Plymouth Arts Centre as the new Chair.
For the first time in its history, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra has appointed two musicians, JAMES CLARK and MAYA IWABUCHI, as the new leaders.
Previously Chairman and CEO of See Tickets in the UK, NICK BLACKBURN has been appointed Chairman of EVENTIM UK Ltd. Since leaving See in September 2010, he has acted as a consultant to such companies as lastminute.com and Universal Music.
MICHAEL ELLIOTT has been appointed Chief Executive of The Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Since 2008 he was Director of Culture at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
Axis has taken WINI TSE, the creative partner and co-founder of Code Computerlove, onto its board of Trustees.
NICOLA TURNER is leaving Arts Council England after nearly five years with the Cultural Leadership Programme. She will be independantly concentrating on leadership and other projects which are international, creative and cultural.
The Chief Executive of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, ROY CLARE, is leaving at the end of May to become Director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand.
As the new Director of the V&A at Dundee, PHILIP LONG will lead the project to establish an international centre for design on the banks of the river Tay. He is currently Senior Curator of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and leads the National Galleries of Scotland’s Artist Rooms project.
JEAN ATKIN has left Dumfries & Galloway Arts where she was Marketing Officer to work as a freelance in press and marketing, and to develop her work as a writer in education.
The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain has appointed three new staff. CATHERINE HIGGINS, currently working at BBC Children in Need, is Alumni Relationships Manager; BEN MELCHIORS, the new Administrative Manager, joins from Battersea Arts Centre; and MICHELLE MASANGKAY from the Lyric Hammersmith is Creative Youth Worker.
JOY CASTLETON, Sales & Marketing Manager at Music at Oxford, is leaving to take a position up at Oriel College, University of Oxford as their Conference & Events Coordinator.
LELIA GRECI, who for seven years has been working for Crawley Borough Council at The Hawth, is returning to her freelance career, including working for Fuse Festival as its new Artistic Director.
The new Chair of Audiences NI is EILEEN MULLAN, an expert on boards and governance. She replaces RICHARD O’RAWE of Stellar Consulting, who has been Chair of Audiences NI since 2008.