The new Director of Marketing and Communications for Birmingham Royal Ballet is KARA LARSON. Founder of the consulting firm Arts Knowledge, she previously worked in senior marketing and communications roles for US opera companies and performing arts centres including San Francisco Opera, Carolina Performing Arts and the Gimmerglass Festival.
15th August 2014
13th August 2014
LOUISE EMERSON will be joining Cheltenham Festivals as the new Chief Executive Officer. Currently Head of Business and Commercial Strategy at the Natural History Museum, she was previously Managing Director of London Calling Arts and Director of the Crescent Arts Centre where she led the development of the Literature Festival and Jazz programme.
NMC Recordings has announced the appointment of a new Chair, ANDREW WARD, following the departure of Richard Shoylekov. Director of Corporate Relations at Brunel University, he is also Chair of the Dartington International Summer School Foundation, Associate Director of the Institute of Composing and Advisor to the Watermans Arts Centre and Mirepoix Musique.
LAURA DODGE, Communications and Membership Officer at Dance UK, is leaving for a new job in communications at the London School of Economics. The interim Communications Officer role is being taken by MICHAEL ADAMSON.
8th August 2014
The Royal Ballet of Flanders has terminated its contract with Artistic Director ASSIS CARREIRO and will be appointing a successor "as soon as possible". No reason has been given for the dismissal of Carreiro, who was Director of DanceEast in Ipswich for 13 years.
7th August 2014
SARA GARNHAM will be Founding Chair for Cambridge Live, the new not-for-profit organisation taking over aspects of Cambridge City Council’s cultural activity, including the Cambridge Corn Exchange. Garnham was Business Development Director at housing company The Hill Group and has been Chair of Wysing Arts Centre and a board member of Cambridge Arts Theatre.
The Chief Curator of the Hayward Gallery STEPHANIE ROSENTHAL will be Artistic Director of the Biennale of Sydney for 2016.
EMILY K. RAFFERTY, the first female President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is retiring after ten years in post and nearly four decades at the institution.
Arts Editor for The Spectator LIZ ANDERSON is retiring after 23 years with the magazine. She is succeeded by ‘Culture House’ blog editor IGOR TORONYI-LALIC.
The Audience Agency has appointed KATIE FLAHERTY as East Midlands Regional Manager and RHIANNON DAVIES as West Midlands Regional Manager. Flaherty was Business Development Manager for Leicester’s Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre, while Davies joins from the Solicitors Regulation Authority.