Harry Gilbert Trythall was an American composer, electronic music pioneer, keyboardist, pianist of jazz and contemporary classical music, a life long educator, and a multimedia enthusiast.
14 Facts About Gil Trythall
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Dr Trythall founded the Electronic Music Plus Festival in the late 1960s and hosted events at universities across the United States.
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Gil Trythall's Symphony No 1 is a demanding work for large orchestra, and his Hecuba and Polyxena of the same period is a severe, brilliant twelve-tone work.
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Gil Trythall's works are archived in the University of Tennessee's Music College.
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Gil Trythall attended Central High School in Knoxville and, in 1948, he enrolled at the University of Tennessee where he studied under David Van Vactor graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1951.
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Gil Trythall was then admitted, that same year, to Northwestern University where he studied under Wallingford Riegger obtaining a Master of Music in 1952.
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Gil Trythall served in the United States Air Force from 1953 to 1957.
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Gil Trythall started his academic career as a graduate assistant during his studies at Cornell University after which he served as an assistant professor at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, from 1960 to 1964 where he was director of the Knox-Galesburg Symphony Orchestra.
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Gil Trythall was then appointed professor of music theory and composition at Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, where he taught from 1964 to 1975.
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Gil Trythall was then appointed dean of the Creative Arts Center at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, from 1975 to 1981.
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Gil Trythall married Jean Marie Slater on December 28,1951, but the couple divorced in 1976.
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Gil Trythall then married Carol King on September 19,1985.
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Gil Trythall had two daughters from his first marriage, Linda Marie and Karen Elizabeth.
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Gil Trythall died in Dallas, Texas on February 17,2023, at the age of 92.