Adam Gatehouse

Adam Gatehouse (born c. 1950)[1][2] 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.

Early life and education

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.[1][3]

Career

Conducting

Gatehouse started his professional conducting career as the musical director of the Ballet Rambert (1974–78).[1][2] He was also the founding conductor of the Wolsey Orchestra (1972–76), then an amateur chamber orchestra.[4] 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).[1][2] He was also the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's artistic advisor (1988–92).[1]

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.[1] 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.[1][3][5][6]

Radio 3

In 1991, Gatehouse gave up full-time conducting to join Radio 3, the BBC's classical music radio station, at first as a producer and subsequently as the editor for live music. He made radio programmes, including documentaries on the Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev and the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, which received Sony Radio Awards. He founded the BBC Wigmore Hall lunchtime concert series in 1998, which was broadcast on Radio 3, and continued to run it until 2013. He also founded the London Symphony Orchestra's lunchtime concert series at St Luke's. He was also responsible for special Radio 3 programming on several composers, including composer weeks for Schubert and Tchaikovsky.[1][2][3]

In 1999, he founded the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme (NGA), which aims to boost the careers of six or seven selected young classical performers or groups each year with concerts, recordings and Radio 3 broadcasts. He continued to direct the scheme until 2013,[1][2][7] when he left Radio 3.[8] Prominent musicians who participated in the scheme include the pianists Benjamin Grosvenor, Igor Levit, Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne, violinist Alina Ibragimova, trumpeter Alison Balsom, percussionist Colin Currie, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and the Belcea Quartet.[1][2][9][10] Jonathan Lennie, writing in Time Out in 2009, called it "a tribute to his intuition ... that practically all of the 60 NGAs have lived up to their potential."[10] Meurig Bowen, director of the Cheltenham Music Festival, commented that his "gift for detecting signs of greatness early on in musicians' careers has proved to be second-to-none."[11]

Other roles

Gatehouse served on the jury of the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2012 and 2015,[3][12] and in 2015, he took over from Fanny Waterman as the artistic director of the competition, jointly with Paul Lewis.[9][13] Martin Cullingford, writing in Gramophone magazine, commented that "Gatehouse's role in launching the BBC New Generation Artists scheme ... well places him to help discover the next generation of keyboard greats."[9] He was also a jury member for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2009 and 2013.[14][15]

In 2006, he founded the Festival de Valloires, a week-long chamber music festival held at Argoules, France, which he also directed.[3][16] He serves on the Artistic Committee of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, a charitable trust that gives grants to young musicians.[17]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Conductor Profile: Adam Gatehouse, Ipswich Symphony Orchestra, retrieved 5 January 2017
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Artistic Directors, Leeds International Piano Competition, retrieved 5 January 2017
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 The Jury, Leeds International Piano Competition, retrieved 6 January 2017
  4. ↑ About the Orchestra, Wolsey Orchestra, retrieved 5 January 2017
  5. ↑ Rupert Christiansen (2 August 2013), "and the Crowd (wept), Tete a Tete/Riverside Studios, review", The Daily Telegraph, retrieved 5 January 2017
  6. ↑ Sanchez Manning (14 July 2013), "'and the Crowd (wept)': Jade Goody becomes latest celebrity to inspire opera", The Independent, retrieved 6 January 2017
  7. ↑ New Generation Artists: About the NGAs, BBC Radio 3, retrieved 6 January 2017
  8. ↑ Matthew Hemley (6 September 2013), "BBC Radio 3 staff restructure planned following new music editor's departure", The Stage, retrieved 6 January 2017
  9. 1 2 3 Martin Cullingford (19 August 2015), "Leeds Piano Competition names new artistic directors", Gramophone, retrieved 5 January 2017
  10. 1 2 Jonathan Lennie (29 August 2009), "Tai Murray and the New Generation Artists", Time Out, republished by Opus 3 Artists, retrieved 6 January 2017
  11. ↑ Meurig Bowen (10 July 2013), I heard them first in Cheltenham, Cheltenham Music Festival, retrieved 7 January 2017
  12. ↑ The 2012 Competition, Leeds International Piano Competition, archived from the original on 27 October 2016, retrieved 6 January 2017
  13. ↑ Paul Lewis and Adam Gatehouse to become joint Artistic Directors of Leeds International Piano Competition, Leeds International Piano Competition, 2015, retrieved 5 January 2017
  14. ↑ Adam Gatehouse, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, 2013, retrieved 6 January 2017
  15. ↑ Czech Bass Wins BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize, Opera Today, 15 June 2009, retrieved 7 January 2017
  16. ↑ Melanie Eskenazi (2008), Festival de Valloires, Argoules, Picardie, France. 8 – 13 August, MusicWeb International, retrieved 6 January 2017
  17. ↑ Who's Who, Borletti-Buitoni Trust, retrieved 5 January 2017
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