Daniel E. Gawthrop

Biography

Daniel E. Gawthrop (born 1949 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American composer. He has been the recipient of over one hundred commissions to write original music. His works have been published by Dunstan House, Warner Brothers, Theodore Presser, Sacred Music Press, the American Boychoir, and others. Gawthrop attended Michigan State University and Brigham Young University. Gawthrop served for three years as Composer-in-Residence to the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (of Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb o...

Daniel E. Gawthrop (born 1949 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American composer. He has been the recipient of over one hundred commissions to write original music. His works have been published by Dunstan House, Warner Brothers, Theodore Presser, Sacred Music Press, the American Boychoir, and others.

Gawthrop attended Michigan State University and Brigham Young University.

Gawthrop served for three years as Composer-in-Residence to the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (of Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C.) and has been the recipient of four grants from The Barlow Endowment for Musical Composition. He has been commissioned by dozens of institutions including the American Choral Directors Association through their prestigious Raymond Brock Memorial series, and has had works première in the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Salt Lake City Mormon Tabernacle, and Washington National Cathedral. His choral pieces have been performed and recorded by such eminent ensembles as The United States Air Force Singing Sergeants, the Gregg Smith Singers, the Turtle Creek Chorale, the Paul Hill Chorale, the American Boychoir, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Cathedral Choral Society (of Washington National Cathedral), Thomas Circle Singers, and hundreds of other groups in the U.S. and abroad.
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