Adam Gatehouse

Adam Gatehouse (born c. 1950) is an English conductor, radio producer and editor, and classical music administrator. He was the main conductor of the Ballet Rambert and the Dutch National Ballet before working for BBC Radio 3 (1991–2013), where he became editor of live music, and founded the New Generation Artists scheme and the Wigmore Hall lunchtime concert series. He has been the joint artistic director of the Leeds International Piano Competition since 2015.

Gatehouse was born in London, and attended the Royal College of Music, where he studied piano and clarinet. His first degree is in music and English. He then went to the Guildhall School of Music, where he studied conducting under Sir Adrian Boult and André Previn.

Gatehouse started his professional conducting career as the musical director of the Ballet Rambert (1974–78). He was also the founding conductor of the Wolsey Orchestra (1972–76), then an amateur chamber orchestra. He then became the principal conductor and musical director of the Dutch National Ballet (1978–89) and of the Dutch National Youth Orchestra (1980–90). He was also the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's artistic advisor (1988–92).

He has been the conductor of the Ipswich Symphony Orchestra since 2000. Other orchestras that he has conducted as a guest include the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, La Fenice, Lamoureux Orchestra, Orchestre de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Royal Ballet and the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. In 2013, he conducted the world première of and the Crowd (wept), an opera by composer Erick Flores and librettist Afsaneh Gray about Jade Goody, the late reality television star.

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