The Brunel Sinfonia's conductor and co-founder is Tom Gauterin.

Tom was born in 1980 and read English at Jesus College, Oxford, during which time he was heavily involved in the University's music scene. Since leaving, he has conducted The Magic Flute at the Apollo Theatre and been praised in the press for a "rocket powered" Beethoven Eroica Symphony and his "authority and flair" in works by Elgar and Dvorak. In 2004 he directed the New English Sinfonia at St John's, Smith Square, in a programme of Beethoven, Ravel and Stravinsky, and in that year was appointed as the first conductor of the Brunel Sinfonia. In summer 2006, Tom was invited to conduct the European Medical Students' Orchestra on their UK tour, which included concerts in Bristol, Bath and Oxford. The programme featured Ralph Vaughan Williams' A London Symphony, and was a great success. Tom's musical interests are wide, although his area of special interest is English music from the first half of the 20th Century. Away from music, Tom works as a solicitor with Burges Salmon, specialising in tax and trusts.