Born in Worcester, Gareth graduated from Clare College, Cambridge with a BA(Hons) in Music and gained the Dip.RAM in piano accompaniment. He has subsequently worked as conductor, senior coach and repetiteur  at Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Opera, The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Opera North, Opera de Lyon and English Touring Opera. He has conducted Rigoletto, The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville, Rape of Lucretia, Don Giovanni, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Salome, Carmen, Tosca, Eugene Onegin, Cosi fan tutte, Wiener Blut, Misper and Apollo e Daphne.

He conducted Madama Butterfly for Opera North and Carmina Burana at the 2008 Cheltenham Festival. He will also conduct Bizet’s Carmen for Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall next year. He recently conducted the debut album for Alfie Boe for Classic fm/Sony BMG and Puccini highlights for the Chandos/Peter Moores Foundation opera in English series. He also worked as Musical Advisor and vocal coach on a film of The Magic Flute, directed by Kenneth Branagh.

As an accompanist Gareth has appeared at all the major London venues and throughout Europe and the USA. In addition he has appeared at many festivals including Cheltenham, Harrogate and Barmouth. He has also broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Radio France and Classic fm, accompanying and working with singers such as Dame Kiri te Kanawa and Dame Felicity Lott.

In September 2008 he released a CD of works for ‘cello and piano with Suzanne Beer (principal cello, LPO) on the Divine Arts label.

Gareth was Head of Music for Savoy Opera and is Music Director for English Music Company. He is also on the coaching staff at the Royal Academy of Music and regularly coaches the Young Artists at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden.