Ross Bauer (born December 19, 1951, Ithaca, New York) is an American composer, conductor, and music educator.
A professor emeritus of the University of California, Davis, he was awarded the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005.
Born in Ithaca, New York, Bauer graduated from the New England Conservatory in 1975 with a Bachelor of Music degree.
[1] At the NEC he was a pupil of John Heiss and Ernst Oster.
In 1984 he earned a PhD from Brandeis University where he studied with Arthur Berger, Martin Boykan, and Seymour Shifrin.