Dave Conner was a composer and music director best known for his work on the children’s series Sesame Street and The Electric Company. Conner won six Daytime Emmy Awards for his work, and was nominated 11 more times.

He served as the associate music director for Sesame Street from 1978 to 2007, and was responsible for writing several songs for the series, including “Alphabet Time (The Surgeon’s Song),” "Animals In, On and Under,” “The Bathtub of Seville,” “Old MacDonald Cantata,” “Let’s Lay an Egg” and “Fairy Tales Today.”

Additionally, he was the music director on several Sesame Street television specials, including Christmas Eve on Sesame Street; Sesame Street, Special; Sesame Street Presents: The Street We Live On; and Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Conner was a classically trained pianist, and earned a B.S. from SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music, and a Masters of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music. Following school, he directed music groups for public schools in New York and Massachusetts, played string bass in the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and was a founding member of the High Tor Opera Company.

He began his career in television in 1972, at the Children’s Television Workshop, a nonprofit organization behind the production of Sesame Strreet. Conner also conducted several orchestral performances around the United States with Big Bird.

Conner died December 26, 2015, in New City, New York. He was 79.