Jill White, former music director of the National Youth Orchestra and music producer for BBC Radio 3, is the new director of the National Schools Symphony Orchestra. It appoints professional conductors and instrumental coaches to help 14 to 19-year-olds on residential holiday courses. Next year, the course will be held at Uppingham School, Rutland, in July. Nationwide auditions will take place from December through to February.
Details from Peter Morris, 14 Park Dale West, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1 4TE. Telephone: 01902 710464; email:petermorris@nsso.org; or visit the website: www.nsso.org.
HOWARD Tomlinson, head of Hereford Cathedral School, is the new chairman of the Choir Schools Association, the body representing 44 independent and maintained choir schools in Britain. He succeeds Richard White, former head of Truro’s Polwhele House School, who becomes the CSA’s director of development.
Dr Tomlinson, right, has been head of the Hereford school and a member of the CSA since 1987. In his new role, he wants to widen access to cathedral choirs and help to promote singing in primary schools.
The Open College of the Arts, the UK’s main centre for distance learning courses in the creative arts, has appointed a development director.
George Apostoli, a pioneer of courses in digital arts, becomes the college’s first development officer. He will introduce distance learning courses to help people with disabilities and others confined in homes, hospitals or prisons. The OCA, based in Barnsley, has been given a pound;200,000 grant by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation to help the disabled and prisoners.
