Education
He studied under Ralph Vaughan Williams, R.O. Morris, Gordon Jacob, and Arthur Benjamin, and then in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and in Berlin with Paul Hindemith.
He studied under Ralph Vaughan Williams, R.O. Morris, Gordon Jacob, and Arthur Benjamin, and then in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and in Berlin with Paul Hindemith.
Bate received early training in music and had composed two operas by age twenty. He wrote incidental music for performances at German playhouses, and toured Australia and the United States as a pianist. There has been recent interest in his music with the high profile and well reviewed recordings of his Symphonies 3 & 4 with Martin Yates conducting The Royal Scottish National Orchestra on the Dutton Epoch label, and the same forces, together with Lionel Handy, cello, have also recently released a recording of Bate’s Cello Concerto on the Lyrita label.