Gatehouse was born in London, and attended the Lycée Francais de Londres[citation needed] and the Royal College of Music, where he studied piano and clarinet.
He then went to the Guildhall School of Music, where he studied conducting under Vilem Tausky, Sir Adrian Boult and André Previn.
[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.
[9] 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.
"[11] 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.