Charles R. Gates

Charles Gates, department chair and professor of music at the University of Mississippi, has been on the faculty since 1988, and served as Director of UM's Academic Support Center from 1999 to 2005. He holds the B.M.E degree in instrumental music education from Louisiana State University and the M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in trumpet performance and literature from Ohio State University. He has served the International Trumpet Guild as coordinator of the "Festival of Trumpets" concert at the 1991 ITG conference held at Louisiana State University, and as chair of the ITG Solo Performance Competition at the 1997 conference held in Goteborg, Sweden. He has also served as an adjudicator at the National Trumpet Competition (1996 and 2001-2007) at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and is currently a member of the NTC Advisory Committee. The March 2005 edition of the Journal of the International Trumpet Guild includes an article by Gates, "The Modern Trumpet Player and the Cornet. In July 2005, Centaur Records released a compact disk recorded by Dr. Gates and Prof. Rodgers in the University's Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. The CD, Fantasie Brilliante: A Cornet Retrospective, includes twelve selections that provide an overview of cornet compositional styles and performance techniques as they have evolved c. 1840 to the late twentieth century. He recently completed, with Prof. Rodgers, a second cornet CD that will include the Twelve Celebrated Fantaisies and Airs Variés by Jean-Baptiste Arban, to be released next year by Centaur Records.