Garsington Opera appoints chair of trustee board
Florence Lockheart
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Miranda Curtis CMG will succeed Bernard Taylor CBE DL, taking the role at the beginning of next year
Garsington Opera has announced that Miranda Curtis CMG will succeed Bernard Taylor CBE DL as chair of the opera festival’s board of trustees. Currently deputy chair of the board, Curtis will take this role from 1 January 2023.
When Curtis vacates her current role of deputy chair next January, Neil King QC, a long-standing member of the Garsington Opera board will take on this role. Effective from this month, the board has also appointed Lady Stringer, chair of the Garsington Opera Development Campaign, and Annette Campbell-White, chair of the American Friends of Garsington as new members of the board of trustees.
Current chair, Taylor commented: ‘Miranda is as convinced as I am about the importance to Garsington Opera’s future of our long-standing project to build the new Arts Hub which is due to be completed, after I have retired, next summer.’
Following an executive career in the media and telecommunications industry with Liberty Global, Curtis has served as chair of Waterstones Limited and Camfed International as well as taking the role of deputy chair of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She joined the Garsington Opera board in 2011 and this year became the lead production supporter for Garsington’s community opera, Dalia.
Curtis said: ‘I am honoured to take over leadership of the Garsington Board from Bernard... our new Arts Hub will allow us to strengthen and reinforce the scope of Garsington Opera’s operational and artistic activities, to expand our young artists’ programme, and to develop our learning and participation and community projects.’
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