Coordinator of Applied Piano
Professor of Music (Piano)
Office: Carpenter Hall 301
Phone: (405) 325-3454
Email: egates@ou.edu
Dr. Edward Gates teaches undergraduate and graduate applied piano, as well as selected graduate seminars in piano literature. Hailed as "a splendid pianist" by The New York Times, he has performed in solo recitals and chamber concerts throughout the United States. He has been guest soloist with orchestras under such conductors as Robert Shaw, Guy Fraser Harrison and Luis Herrara. He studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, the Mozarteum Akademie in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. In 1971 he received a Fulbright grant to do research on Eighteenth Century pianos at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. In 1992 he was invited to give recitals, lectures and master classes in Taiwan and the Peoples Republic of China. He has received the University of Oklahoma Regents' Award for Superior Teaching and the Burlington Northern Award for Faculty Achievement. In 1997 he was named the Irene and Julian J. Rothbaum Presidential Professor of Excellence in the Arts.
BM—Oberlin Conservatory of Music
MM—Indiana University
DMA—Indiana University
Dr. Edward Gates teaches undergraduate and graduate applied piano, as well as selected graduate seminars in piano literature. Hailed as "a splendid pianist" by The New York Times, he has performed in solo recitals and chamber concerts throughout the United States. He has been guest soloist with orchestras under such conductors as Robert Shaw, Guy Fraser Harrison and Luis Herrara. He studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, the Mozarteum Akademie in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. In 1971 he received a Fulbright grant to do research on Eighteenth Century pianos at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. In 1992 he was invited to give recitals, lectures and master classes in Taiwan and the Peoples Republic of China. He has received the University of Oklahoma Regents' Award for Superior Teaching and the Burlington Northern Award for Faculty Achievement. In 1997 he was named the Irene and Julian J. Rothbaum Presidential Professor of Excellence in the Arts. 