About the SPACE Team

 

RESEO - Opera and Dance Education Network for Europe

Rhian Hutchings - RESEO SPACE Project Manager

Rhian Hutchings is Creative Director of Operasonic, and Partnership Manager for ArtWorks Cymru. She has been working in opera for the last fifteen years and her career choices have been led by her passion for contemporary opera and participatory arts.

Rhian has worked for many of the major opera companies in the UK and spent three years as a staff director at English National Opera before moving back to Wales. She formed Operasonic in November 2014. The company focuses on enabling young people to engage with opera, as audiences, as participants, as creators, as leaders, and creating opportunities for them to explore, create and experience opera.

For ArtWorks Cymru, Rhian has been enabling sector-wide networking, resource development, and debate for the last 5 years. The project has been led by 26 artists and organisations from across Wales.

She is a steering committee member of RESEO (European opera and dance education network) and manages the SPACE Erasumus Plus project for the network. She also works with schools in South Wales to facilitate creative projects as a Creative Agent for the Arts Council Wales Lead Creative Schools Scheme.