DUNDEE Rep theatre is to appoint a new Chief Executive after the departure of Philip Howard in June of this year.
Howard became CEO and joint artistic director, with Jemima Levick, in Spring 2013 and now plans to return to teaching and freelance directing. Levick will continue as sole artistic director of the ensemble acting company and venue, where Fleur Darkin is artistic director of Scottish Dance Theatre. Howard, who previously ran the Traverse in Edinburgh, said: "I consider my partnership with Jemima Levick to have been the most rewarding of my career." Rep board chair Peter Inglis said: "I would like to thank Philip for his contribution to the continuing success of Dundee Rep during a period of significant transition in the company - and notably, the recent award of Regular Funding from Creative Scotland for the next three years."
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THE ALL-MALE vocal ensemble Scozzesi will play a fundraising concert at Garnethill Synagogue on Sunday, March 29 at 3pm. The ensemble, comprising singers who are all becoming established in their solo careers, performs solos, duets, trios and quartets from the opera and operetta repertoires as well as songs from Gilbert & Sullivan, film and stage musicals, and the Scottish tradition. Also appearing is Adrian Drover's Slide Rule trombone ensemble.
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CELTIC Connections has announced that Chilean singer Valentina Montoya MartÃÂnez will open Sunday's concert by the Herald Angel-winning Venezuelan pianist, Leo Blanco's Blue Lamp Quartet at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall's Strathclyde Suite. Currently based in Edinburgh, MartÃÂnez fled Chile with her family as a child following the 1973 military coup. She has recently finished recording an album of her own compositions in Greece, with award-winning producer-musician Vangelis Fampas, and will perform some of these with her trio on Sunday.
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THE NATIONAL Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music has released its latest showcase recording, Top of the Crops. A double CD, it features the latest young talents to benefit from the experience of the school's teaching staff, who are all working musicians, on songs and tunes by composers ranging from Robert Burns to Punch Brothers' mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile and drawn from the students' own writing as well as from the tradition.
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