Adam Gatehouse

Adam Gatehouse (born ) 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).

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. when he left Radio 3. 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. 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."

Other roles Gatehouse served on the jury of the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2012 and 2015, and in 2015, he took over from Fanny Waterman as the artistic director of the competition, initially jointly with Paul Lewis, and from 2019, as the sole director. 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."

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