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UK - As part of an ongoing drive to improve the services offered to its customers, the FX Group has restructured its technical department, with several key promotions from within the company. The reorganization is also in response to the departure in early September of technical director Frank Oglethorpe, who has relocated to the US.

Adam Pope, who has worked in a technical capacity for FX for almost six years, has been promoted to technical manager. Pope previously worked as an audio engineer in Prague, prior to that spending six years in Soundcraft's R&D department. He will be responsible for the day to day running of the technical and check-in department, liaising with suppliers' and clients' own technical staff and working with clients on special projects which involve FX in both an advisory and rentals role. Pope will also continue to offer technical support on equipment, s

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Pioneering lighting designer Andy Phillips, who was an integral part of the artistic team at the Royal Court Theatre from 1965 - 1972, passed away on September 17 aged 63.

Phillips was famed for his unfussy and uncluttered lighting techniques, believing that if lighting was noticed it was essentially bad lighting. During his time at the Royal Court he was given free reign to experiment with lighting, which ultimately resulted in the famous 'white light' technique where, if colour was used at all it tended to be colour correction reducing the orange cast of tungsten sources. This method aimed to retain the natural skin tone of an actors face and ensure total visual clarity of facial expression. During this period many of the Court's set designers were also dispensing with the artifice of theatre, often removing masking and leaving stage and lighting exposed. John Dexter, speaking of Phi

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UK - Anthony Newton has succeeded Katharine Williams as technical director of NSDF; The National Student Drama Festival. The Festival, held over the Easter period each year, will be celebrating its fiftieth birthday this March and Anthony welcomes the challenge this unique event will bring.

Anthony, now an Edinburgh based lighting designer, has attended the festival as a member of the technical crew since 1999. He was then at school in Scarborough; his home town and home of the Festival for 16 years now. Aged 21 Anthony is one of the youngest technical directors to date and comes to the position fresh from graduating from Queen Margaret's University College, Edinburgh.

Katharine has stepped down from the role she has held for over three years in order to further develop her career as a freelance lighting designer. From her base in London, Katharine has worked throughout the UK

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Wordwide - Affirming its commitment to the ongoing development of the EAW Commercial brand throughout the world, Loud Technologies has announced the appointment of two professional audio veterans to the EAW Commercial team. Bob Harrison assumes the position of EAW Commercial sales manager for the EMEA region, and John Bosaw has been appointed to the position of market liaison, EAW Commercial.

As LOUD Technologies' EAW Commercial sales manager for the EMEA region, Bob Harrison will act as the primary contact for all EAW Commercial distributors throughout Europe and will therefore be responsible for spearheading EAW Commercial sales throughout the EMEA region.

Bob Harrison has more than 20 years of experience in the professional audio industry including a total of 17 years with Beyerdynamic UK, the distribution company of the German microphone and headphone manufacturer. The fir

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Germany - B & K Braun of Karlsbad has strengthened its export department with the appointment of new recruit Mirjam Sojka, reporting to export manager Ralph Zoller. Sojka's responsibilities include the export activities of German Light Products (GLP). For 10 years, GLP has been developing and producing lighting equipment including moving lights, dimmers and lighting controllers. Already around 40% of its production is exported and this share is rising, say the company. Important markets for GLP products include not only Asian countries like Singapore, Malaysia and Korea but also continental and eastern Europe.

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USA - Super Vision International Inc has announced the appointment by its board of directors of Anthony T. Castor III as a director of the company, with effect from 4 October. Castor currently serves as president, CEO and a director of Chromalox Inc - a Pittsburgh-based manufacturer of precision heating and control devices, currently a key portfolio company for JP Morgan Partners. Prior to his position at Chromalox, Castor served as President and CEO at the Morgan Group, Inc of Baltimore, Maryland, a company engaged in transportation and specialty outsourcing services.

From 1997 to 1999 Castor served as president and CEO of Precision Industrial Corporation of Montvale, New Jersey - a $200 million manufacturer of capital equipment for the metal processing industry, prior to which he was president and CEO of Hayward Industries of Elizabeth, New Jersey - one of the world's largest

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UK tsg, the national media programming and system design company recently announced the appointment of David Ridout as technical manager. Ridout previously worked for Middlesex Sound & Light and Tape Techniques; two well regarded installation companies, therefore Paul Kemp, tsg's operations manager had already witnessed first-hand Ridout's specifying, project management and installation skills, and moved quickly to secure his employment at tsg.

Ridout is equally thrilled to join tsg, and commented: "for a long time I have respected the entertainment environments that tsg provide for its many customers, and when I heard that there was an opening at tsg, I made sure that Paul Kemp knew I was interested". The move coincided with tsg securing the media supply and installation contract across 500 stores of the female fashion giant New Look, an account that was previously

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UK - The Board of Directors of James Thomas Engineering Ltd has issued a statement announcing that Mervyn Thomas is no longer an employee of the company, following a management restructuring which has also seen the appointment of John Hickinbotham as coordinator. Hickinbotham, known to many as Jig, has worked for the company for many years and will join the team responsible for customer liaison.

Pixel Range sales continue to be handled by Andy Walters and Ashley Lewis, and truss and lighting sales by Chris Waller and Tina Hall. John Hickinbotham should be contacted at the e-mail address given below with communications that would have previously channelled through Mervyn Thomas, say the company.

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UK - John Hickinbotham, known to his associates as 'John Jig', returns to UK-based James Thomas Engineering as client liaison co-ordinator. This is part of the company's current management restructuring, and follows the departure of Mervyn Thomas.

Jig returns to the company after three years working in IT, previous to which he worked at JTE for 20 years. He will be working alongside the sales and product development teams for both Pixel Range, and JTE's core trussing, metalwork and lighting fixture business. His focus will be on ensuring that JTE stays at the forefront of technical innovation - an element that's helped keep the company a market leader in the production industry for over 25 years.

Jig commented: "It's really great to be back. It's hugely exciting to be part of a lively and energetic team, all working together in creating a new, revitalized and highly effic

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UK - Induction loop specialist Ampetronic has announced two new appointments to accommodate the increasing demand for induction loop systems in new and challenging environments. Julian Pieters assumes the position of managing director, with Ken Hollands becoming commercial director. Ampetronic's founder, Leon Pieters, takes on the role of technical director.

Julian Pieters joins Ampetronic from Cambridge Consultants, one of the foremost consultancies delivering turnkey product and technology development programmes. His management experience there, plus an INSEAD MBA, makes him ideally suited for his new role. Hollands, meanwhile, has a strong technical background and extensive international sales and marketing experience within the advanced technology and communications industries, working for companies such as Marconi and JDS Uniphase. During his career, he has successfully de

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UK/Ireland - Acclaimed sound engineer Moray McMillin has been appointed pro audio sales manager South/National Concert Sound Specialist for John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd - the exclusive UK and Eire distributor for HK Audio. From Nov 1st, a, dealing with the continuing acceleration of interest in HK Audio pro audio systems, concentrating on the mainly southern section of the UK.

McMillin is a hugely experienced sound engineer with over 30 years of top flight experience under his belt. He has toured the world many times over with major rock acts such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Dio, Whitesnake, Souxsie and The Banshees and Suzanne Vega. "The last nine years have been spent touring worldwide with Deep Purple," explains Moray. "That was a wonderful experience as innovation and quality of sound is very important to the band. Consequently, I was given the opportunity

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UK - London-based entertainment venue A/V installation specialists Live Business International has appointed Sarah Cox to the post of Technical Administrator.

Cox has joined LBI having worked for a rental company as a lighting technician, specialising in automated lights. Before that she worked as the stage manager for the Comedy Store in London. She has a wide range of experience from running - and even performing in - cabaret shows to editing videos.

She now works for LBI as the Technical Administrator, administrating and co-ordinating installations, and various other projects, from conception to completion. LBI founder and director Roland Hemming says: "Sarah's wide ranging experience of both the creative and technical sides of the entertainment business make her ideally suited to this busy role and it's great to have her on board."

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USA - Industry training specialist and lighting programmer Vickie Claiborne has left High End Systems to launch an independent career as a training development consultant and automated lighting programmer. Claiborne has worked with High End Systems for over 10 years developing training programs recognized worldwide for lighting control consoles and digital media systems. She has created and maintained a consistent training curriculum for many leading products, including LCD Controllers, Status Cue, Wholehog 2 and most recently Wholehog 3 and Catalyst. Her programming experience includes the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony as well as numerous live concerts, broadcast events, and corporate industrials.

Claiborne is now actively expanding her coverage of product support seminars to include various lighting control systems and digital media products throughout the lightin

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Germany - MA Lighting has announced the appointment of Stefan Fiedler as technical sales and project coordinator, in which role he will support the company's international sales and project business, especially concerning tenders and complex system integrations. Fiedler is both a product and system expert and has experience of R&D, production, sales and the market.

As engineering graduate (Dipl.-Ing) for theatre and event technology, Fiedler worked for the Nationaltheater Mannheim, before joining Stella AG as stage and lighting director. Since November 1999 he has worked for the Despar Licht- und Bühnentechnik GmbH, where he was responsible for the planning as well as realization of special projects.

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Russia - Vision Systems, the global provider of early warning fire, public address and security systems which purchased Ampekko/Millbank earlier this year, has announced the appointment of Mikhail Elisseev as a regional sales executive for Russia. The appointment is a result of increased demand for Vision Systems' very early smoke aspirating VESDA solution. The appointment will ensure even better levels of technical support to Vision Systems' network of channel partners, and promote awareness of VESDA to target end users and specifiers throughout Russia and CIS region, say the company.

Mikhail has extensive experience in the field of fire engineering from his role with SEM, the leading Russian Fire Engineering and VESDA reseller. Prior to his time with SEM, Mikhail was a teacher at the State Service Technical School and holds a Masters Degree from the Academy of State Fire Servi

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UK - Selecon UK has announced that David Wilkins, formerly a senior manager with Lancelyn in Oxford, has joined their team as UK market manager with effect from 25 October. Mike Goldberg, Selecon's European sales director comments: "This is a very positive appointment. David has a great deal of experience in the lighting industry and I'm looking forward to working with him."

Wilkins originally trained in stage management at the Guildford School of Acting, after which he worked for a number of hire companies rigging lighting and staging equipment. It was the lighting side of the business that caught his imagination and he joined Strand Lighting, where he stayed for seven years, doing a variety of jobs including estimator, project manager and mobile sales engineer. A variety of other jobs primarily in the lighting industry gave him the broad experience that he now bring

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UK - Lift-Turn-Move, the newly-launched company fronted by John Jones, has already announced the appointment of an additional team member, as Alan Wood joins the core LTM team of five. As works engineer, Wood will be working alongside his colleagues prepping Lodestars, and further improving LTM's systems for faster and more efficient processing of orders received since the company's inception at PLASA.

Wood first worked with Jones at PCM, which he joined aged 18. He left four years later to work as assistant engineer with industrial lifting and rigging specialist Cosalt, continuing his career in the lifting business. Wood comments: "It's going to be a great challenge working with LTM - a brand new company with a brand new attitude and lots of drive and enthusiasm. I am looking forward to helping make the company a great success."

John Jones says: "Our business

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UK - Ed Pagett, the well-known general manager of VLPS Lighting Services which merged with PRG recently, has left the company following an internal reorganization which sees David Keighley of LSD-Fourth Phase take over at the head of the newly-formed PRG Lighting division. It is understood that Pagett left the company in mid-October, although no official statement had been issued by PRG at the time of going to press.

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USA - Industry veteran, Eric Mueller, has joined Clay Paky America as regional sales manager for the central and eastern US. Mueller joins Clay Paky America with 14 years of experience in the entertainment lighting market and for the last four years he has been with another intelligent lighting manufacturer. With the recent restructuring of the dealer and distribution arrangements for Clay Paky products on the East Coast, Mueller will be the face of Clay Paky across a significant portion of the country.

"We are thrilled that Eric chose Clay Paky America as his new home," said P.J. Turpin, CEO of Clay Paky America. "He makes a great addition to the team, which now includes a fantastic technical support manager in Giovanni Zucchinali and an almost seamless interface with the factory thanks to the excellent support of Francesco Romagnoli, the area manager for North

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UK - David Hamilton-Smith, owner of Soho audio post-production facility, China Blue has been elected by the APRS Board to succeed Focusrite's Phil Dudderidge as the new chairman of the Association of Professional Recording Services.

Hamilton Smith has a broad experience of the recording industry both in music recording and audio post-production. His career started at Olympic Studios in Barnes under the stewardship of Keith Grant where he was involved in recording every conceivable kind of music. A five-year spell as a freelance engineer/producer preceded joining Complete Video as head of sound where he stayed for 12 years, becoming a director, before leaving to open his own facility, China Blue, which has recently launched a new 5.1 Surround Room.

In a statement to mark his election DHS said: "I am genuinely touched and honoured to have been invited to be the new chairman

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USA - Wybron Inc announces the appointment of Joan Bolen as Marketing Coordinator, effective November 3, 2004. Joan holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing from The University of Texas at Austin and brings an energetic and creative perspective to Wybron's sales and marketing efforts. She has a long background with computers and graphic design and has worked in marketing and public relations for the past 15 years.

An admitted theatre addict, Bolen says she is excited about learning more about the technology of Wybron's stage lighting products and hopes to contribute in all aspects of promoting them.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - The Institute of Sound & Communications Engineers (ISCE) has announced that Ros Wigmore has been appointed to provide secretariat services to the ISCE, replacing Cathy Mackezie, as of 1 October 2004. Ros Wigmore can be contacted at PO Box 7966, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 7WY.

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USA - Vari-Lite has hired Todd Kessler to oversee additional growth and development of its product training program. Expansion of the program will help ensure that the market is staffed with qualified technicians and will allow authorized Vari*Lite dealers to provide greater product support for end users. The company says the position was created due to the large increase in demand for Vari*Lite fixtures following the recent introduction of four new Vari*Lite Series 3000 and Series 2000 luminaires.

Kessler, who is fully trained on all Series 1000, Series 2000 and Series 3000 luminaires, has nearly a decade of experience with Vari*Lite products. He joins Vari-Lite from PRG, where he was shop manager for the Orlando rental office. At PRG, and previously VLPS Lighting Services, Kessler trained all incoming employees on the use and maintenance of the rental inventory. He also superv

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UK - Stage Electrics has announced two new additions to its team serving the London scene - Matt Townsend and Darren Beckley. Townsend, who joined the company in September and is working with West End theatre and touring clients, is well known in the industry and most recently was the technical manager for Gilded Balloon. Prior to this, he toured with Saturday Night Fever and Forbidden Planet. "Working closely with Stage Electrics in the past allows me to bring a different perspective and insight to make sure our customers receive the best possible service," says Townsend.

Darren Beckley has recently been promoted to business development manager for London, taking on the responsibility for securing new and growing existing business by satisfying local customer requirements. Beckley has worked for the company for three years, starting in the Bristol ware

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  4. Digigram's Asia-Pacific appointment
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  6. Promotions at expanding Audio-Technica
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