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Leading Southbank Centre’s classical music programme

Netherlands

Guest Curator at Wonderfeel – the Netherlands’ biggest outdoor classical music festival

Cardiff, United Kingdom

• Highlights and duties include:
• Membership of the Nominations Committee (Chair from July 2021)
• Recruitment of Aidan Lang (formerly General Director, Seattle Opera) as WNO General Director, contributing to the person specification, role profile, interview questions, and sitting on the interview panel
• Recruitment of new Trustees

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Duties and achievements include:
• Lead and figurehead for the classical music programme; internal champion and external public face (European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) Artistic Platform in Hamburg – leading on and presenting Birmingham’s 2021/22.
• Managing the £1m budget for the overall classical music programme
• Curating, negotiating and managing Town Hall Symphony Hall’s own promoted classical music season – development and implementation of a themed approach to the Classical Season, strategically targeting different audience.
• Supporting and developing Town Hall Symphony Hall’s classical music season with additional activity including artist conversations, learning and participation activities, and other supporting performances
• Co-ordinating Town Hall Symphony Hall’s classical music season with that of the resident orchestra CBSO, Associate Artists, and other artistic partners

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Duties and achievements included:
• Leading on programming, producing and delivering Symphony Hall’s Inside Out festival – a ‘free festival’, with a holistic overview of Programming, Marketing, Design, Operations, and Finance, within a £40,000 budget
• Overseeing the delivery of the annual classical music season of 60 concerts featuring UK/international visiting artists
• Programming the ECHO Rising Stars strand of emerging classical artists and the Organ Concert Series
• Project managing the Birmingham International Piano Competition
• Budgetary control of £115,000 within the wider artistic programming budget

Cardiff, United Kingdom

• Highlights and duties include:
• Leading on Young People Engagement strategy

London, United Kingdom

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Curating the International Concert Season Extras programme of pre- and post-concert performances and talks, enhancing the classical music audience experience beyond the main concert programme

Cardiff, United Kingdom

• A Welsh Government-funded arts enterprise initiative providing funding, advice, and project management support to students running their own arts projectsHighlights and duties included:
• Repositioning REPCo to become an integral part of academic training within the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama by:- Broadening the scope of project proposals beyond music to include drama and theatre design.
• Raising and strengthening REPCo’s profile by executing a digital marketing strategy, and developing a visual brand manual
• Overseeing the allocation of a £16,000 annual fund to develop student-led arts projects
• Chairing a weekly forum of student project leaders, providing advice and support
• Producing six week-long festivals of student-led arts projects

Cardiff, United Kingdom

• Highlights and duties included:
• Co-founder of Sinfonia Cymru Curate (Sinfonia Cymru’s Youth Board and creative hub of young musicians and arts entrepreneurs)
• Liaising between the Sinfonia Cymru Board of Directors and Sinfonia Cymru Curate
• Contributing towards a new strategic model for a 21st century chamber orchestra including the development of the orchestra’s artistic programme, and digital engagement strategy

Cardiff, United Kingdom

• Highlights included:
• Founding Sinfonia Newydd (a commissioning and producing company for new work by established and emerging music creators) and creating a three-year strategic plan
• Establishing a Board of Directors, establishing and managing a core freelance project team
• Producing projects through collaborations with contemporary classical composer/DJ Gabriel Prokofiev, percussionist Joby Burgess, contemporary classical late-night event series Nonclassical, international visual art.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Master’S Degree, Arts Management

2013: Prince of Wales Scholarship for Arts Administration

Bachelor’S Degree, Music

Principal Study: Viola July 2012: Gemma Sharp Memorial Award December 2011: Wales Future Entrepreneur Award (Finalist) July 2011: HTV.