Composer Robert Gates studied composing receiving a master's degree at Juilliard with Oscar and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Corigliano, specializing in bold, large-palette orchestral music. Winner of the national young composer awards from BMI and ASCAP, he also received awards and honors from Juilliard and The American Composers Orchestra. Combining a passion for melodic invention with a wild imagination for dramatic orchestral sonorities and textures, his compositions and orchestrations have been commissioned and performed internationally. He recently arranged for the orchestra for Spinal Tap - for an album and series of live shows with the Atlanta Symphony, The Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra, the Louisiana Symphony Orchestra, and the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center and on PBS with special guests Jack Black, Steve Vai, Paul Shaffer... He has recently scored multiple short films by Oscar-nominated director Colin Campbell, including The Sound of Fear, for which he won Best Score at the LA Cinema Festival of Hollywood. Recent concert music commissions include several dance pieces in NYC, and piano music for the 2018 25th anniversary of the premier American new piano music series in Los Angeles, Piano Spheres. He has also worked as an arranger and orchestrator for conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya . Robert lives and works in Los Angeles.
