Crawford Gates

Crawford Gates (born December 29, 1921) is a musician, composer, and conductor known for his contributions to the body of LDS music.

Gates was born in San Francisco, December 1921, and grew up in Palo Alto, California.

Gates received a BA “with great distinction” from San Jose State University, a MA from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. from Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester.

Gates studied composition with two Pulitzer Prize-winning composers, Howard Hanson and , and with Leroy Robertson. He studied conducting with Eleazar de Carvalho at Tanglewood and Hans Swarowsky of the Vienna State Opera.

He was a member of the music faculty at Brigham Young University during the summers of 1948 to 1960, full-time from 1950 to 1966. He was the chair of BYU’s music department from 1960 to 1966. Gates was a professor of music and artist in residence at Beloit College in Wisconsin from 1966 to 1989.

Gates was the music director of the Beloit Janesville Symphony Orchestra for 34 years (1963–1964, 1966–1999), where he prepared orchestral and orchestral-choral arrangements for annual pops and children’s concerts. He was the music director of the Quincy Symphony from 1969 to 1970 and of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra from 1970 to 1986.

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