Education
Gawthrop attended Michigan State University, and graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1988.
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His output also includes a substantial body of works for the organ as well as orchestral and instrumental works. He has been the recipient of over one hundred commissions to write original music He served for three years as Composer-in-Residence to the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (of Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, District of Columbia) and has been the recipient of four grants from The Barlow Endowment for Musical Composition.
In 1991, he established his own publishing company, Dunstan House.
"I get to control what pieces are published, which ones stay in print, how they are marketed and what their price will be. The cons are that owning it all means funding it all, risking it all, mastering it all and endlessly worrying about it all."
In addition to his work as a composer, Gawthrop has been active as a broadcaster, clinician and adjudicator, organist, conductor, teacher and writer, including a period as music critic for The Washington Post.
The bulk of his organ works have been recorded on two commercially available CDs. The first, "Exultate", was performed by Mary Mozelle on the Princeton University Chapel organization
The second disc, "Like a Fire", was performed by Doctor David Pickering on the Bales Recital Hall organ at the University of Kansas at Lawrence.
The Utah State University Chamber Choir, conducted by Doctor Cory Evans, recorded a Civil Defense containing much of Gawthop"s choral work, called "Show Maine Thy Ways", and also a Civil Defense of choral works, "Sing Maine To Heaven".
Membership
Gawthrop is a Life Member of the American Choral Directors Association, a member of The American Guild of Organists, and a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the music fraternity.
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