Richard Trythall

Richard Aaker Trythall (born July 25, 1939 in Knoxville , Tennessee ) is an American-Italian composer and pianist.

Trythall studied composition with David Van Vactor at the University of Tennessee (BM 1961) and with Roger Sessions and Earl Kim at Princeton University (MFA 1963) as well as with Leon Kirchner in Tanglewood and in 1963/64 with Boris Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin . He was u. a. Fulbright and Guggenheim scholarship holder , in 1964 received the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome . In 1969 he was awarded the Kranichstein Music Prize (piano). He was at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972/73and in 1976 at the University of California, Davis . Since 1966 he was a teacher at St. Stephen's School in Rome, in 1974 he became "Music Liaison" of the American Academy in Rome.

He is married to an Italian woman and has one daughter.

literature

• Don Michael Randal (ed.): The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music . Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-674-37299-9 , p. 927.

Web links

• Richard Trythall at Discogs (English)
• Richard Trythall's website