Composition, Arranging, and Orchestration

Educator, composer, arranger, and bassist Jerry Gates has been a music industry professional for over twenty-five years. His television and radio credits include Bank of America, Log Cabin Syrup, Scope Mouthwash, Marlboro cigarettes and music preparation for "The Dennis Miller Show," jazz great Bill Holman, and film composers Jack Smalley and Richard Band. Currently, he is director of the Berklee Portfolio Orchestra, and as a Professor, he teaches Contemporary Arranging, Directed Studies in Arranging, Contemporary Twelve-Tone Composition, Orchestration, Writing, and Production in the Studio and Music Preparation courses at Berklee College. Jerry's most recently completed projects include producing music for Nestle, writing a book titled All Twelve, directing, composing and writing arrangements for concerts featuring noted drummer Steve Smith and Los Angeles studio bassist Neil Stubenhaus, and directing annual student concerts at the Berklee Performance Center. He holds a BM from Berklee College of Music and an MM from the Hartt School, and graduated from both the Television/Film Scoring and Composing/Arranging programs at the former Grove School of Music in Los Angeles, CA.

Jerry Gates, Professor in Contemporary Arranging Berklee College of Music