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 artistic director of the Leeds International Piano Competition since 2015.
20-608: BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme (also known as the NGA scheme) was launched in 1999 by Adam Gatehouse as part of the BBC 's commitment to young musical talent. Each autumn six or seven young artists at the beginning of careers on the national and international music scenes join the scheme for a two-year period. Since 2006 a jazz artist has also been invited every other year. The artists are given performance opportunities, including Radio 3 studio recordings, appearances and recordings with
40-530: A new Barcelona civic orchestra – the current Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona – was founded with the name of Barcelona Municipal Orchestra , created by the City Council (Ajuntament de Barcelona) and promoted by the Catalan conductor and composer Eduard Toldrà . Toldrà, through his leadership, helped to consolidate the orchestra's presence very early in the cultural life of the city. Barcelona has since had
60-550: A number of New Generation Artists have also featured on BBC Music Magazine cover CDs. In 2006 Welsh pianist Gwilym Simcock was invited as the first jazz artist to join the New Generation Artists scheme. This continues every other year with jazz trumpeter Tom Arthurs joining in 2008 and jazz reeds player Shabaka Hutchings in 2010. In 2008 Iranian harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani joined as the scheme's first artist playing an early instrument, though he has also made
80-776: A private-based Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona gave its concerts in the Teatre Eldorado, led by Joan Lamote de Grignon . After it, the city's principal orchestra was the Orquestra Pau Casals (1920–1936), conducted by Pau Casals , and linked to the Associació Obrera de Concerts (Workers' Society for Concerts). After the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), both the orchestra and society were banned and Casals went into exile in France. In 1944,
100-477: A regular cycle of symphonic concerts with the collaboration of the main national and foreign performers and with the aim to make classical music reach the greater public and especially to spread the work of Catalan composers. After Toldrà's death in 1962, Rafael Ferrer became the head of the orchestra until 1967, when Antoni Ros-Marbà succeeded him. From this moment, it received the name of Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona (City of Barcelona Orchestra, or OCB ) until
120-592: A serious mark as an interpreter of 20th-century music and newly commissioned compositions. On 26 September 2012 seven new artists were announced which included the scheme's first guitarist Sean Shibe. Several New Generation Artists are also former participants in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the New Generation Artists scheme, over fifty New Generation Artists past and present performed 12 concerts during
140-674: Is a symphony orchestra based in Barcelona, Spain . Since April 1999, the Orchestra has had its headquarters at L'Auditori . Prior to that, from its foundation to 1998, the orchestra was resident at the Palau de la Música Catalana . In addition to the Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu , founded in 1847 and devoted to opera and ballet , Barcelona has had several symphonic orchestras since 1888. From 1910 to 1924,
160-850: The BBC Orchestras and appearances at several music festivals, including the Cheltenham Music Festival and the BBC Proms . They also regularly appear at the Edinburgh International Festival , Aldeburgh Festival , East Neuk Festival , Gregynog Festival , London Festival of Baroque Music and the York Early Music Festival . Artists also appear at London's Wigmore Hall in the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert series, as well as at
180-708: 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, 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
200-525: The Belcea Quartet . 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." 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." Gatehouse served on the jury of
220-917: The Dutch National Ballet (1978–89) and of the Dutch National Youth Orchestra (1980–90). He was also the artistic advisor to the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (1988–91). 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
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#1732801888015240-603: The Guildhall School of Music , where he studied conducting under Vilem Tausky, 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
260-699: 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
280-516: The Sage Gateshead and other UK concert venues. As part of the scheme Radio 3 has also collaborated with record companies, including nine co-production CDs with EMI Debut series, three of which ( Belcea Quartet , Simon Trpceski and Jonathan Lemalu ) have won Gramophone Awards for the best Debut CD of the year. There have also been co-productions with Harmonia Mundi , Decca , BIS , Sony Classical , Onyx, Signum and Basho Music , while
300-641: 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. 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
320-712: 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 . In 1999, he founded
340-651: The bank holiday weekend Saturday 29th - Monday 31 August at the Cadogan Hall in London, as part of the 2009 BBC Proms . Adam Gatehouse Gatehouse was born in London, and attended the Lycée Francais de Londres and the Royal College of Music , where he studied piano and clarinet. His first degree is in music and English which he studied at Dartington Hall and Exeter University. He then went to
360-519: The constitution of the Consortium made up of the Government of Catalonia and Barcelona City Hall, in the 1994–95 season, which gave it the current name of Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia), known as OBC . In 1994–1995 season a Consortium made up of the Government of Catalonia and Barcelona City Council
380-1004: The next generation of keyboard greats." He was also a jury member for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2009 and 2013. 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. Barcelona Symphony Orchestra The Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia ( Catalan : Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, OBC ; IPA: [uɾˈkestɾə siɱˈfɔnikə ðə βəɾsəˈlonəj nəsi.uˈnal də kətəˈluɲə] )
400-580: Was constituted. In September 2015, Kazushi Ōno became principal conductor of the OBC, with an initial contract of three years. Ōno concluded his tenure as OBC principal conductor at the close of the 2021-2022 season. In November 2021, the OBC announced the appointment of Ludovic Morlot as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2022-2023 season, with an initial contract of four seasons. The OBC has made recordings for such labels as Decca , EMI , Auvidis , Koch , Claves and Naxos Records . As
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