Melbourne shakes out board, calls in ex-BBC boss

The deeply troubled Melbourne Symphony has called in consultants KPMG to see what went wrong. The chairman and three other board members will step down.

Richard Wigley, former head of the BBC Philharmonic, has been appointed CEO. He was lately acting as interim.

Wigley’s CV: Born in New Zealand, Richard studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in the United States before embarking on a professional career playing the bassoon for the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester in the United Kingdom. At Hallé he was appointed the Orchestra’s Education Director and then Head of Artistic Planning, leading to management roles at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and overall leadership as General Manager of the BBC Philharmonic. Most recently he was Managing Director for the Ulster Orchestra in Northern Ireland and Interim CEO of the Dunard Centre, a premier concert hall being built in Edinburgh, Scotland.

photo from 2016