ABOUT US
Arts Executive Search is a specialist recruitment company serving arts organisations in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East and Australia. We recruit executives at the top, senior and middle management levels. Our clients include orchestras, opera companies, festivals, venues, universities, conservatoires, artist management companies, record labels, music publishing companies, presenting organisations and foundations.
Our international network enables us to select the right candidate from any corner of the globe.
Since opening in 2000 Arts Executive Search has worked with client organisations and candidates in 17 countries. Our professional expertise enables us to assist the client in refining the search specifications in the context of the organisation structure and its artistic objectives.
We have placed CEOs and artistic directors as well as senior managers in technical and production; marketing and communications; development and artistic programming. We have been engaged by the leading nonprofit organisations as well as the major commercial companies in recording and music publishing.
ARTS ENVIRONMENT
The increasingly competitive arts landscape, new state of the art venues, higher performance standards, digital platforms, complex organisation structures, plural sources of funding, greater public accountability.... are some of the many factors which are forcing a change in the profile of arts executives in the 21st century.
We understand the universal goals of a performing arts organisation: to promote the creation, performance and distribution of the artform at the highest level in a dynamic cultural context. Securing the best management talent is essential to achieving those objectives.