Artist description Richard Trythall is a composer-pianist who is equally at home in the standard Classical piano repertoire and the twentieth century Avant-garde repertoire. In addition to his piano music, he has composed numerous chamber and orchestral works and was a pioneer in developments of electronic "musique concrete" in the 1970's. His piano compositions reflect all of his varied musical experiences combining his interest in new forms and expression with his love for the Romantic character piece and the Impressionistic tone-poem to create a music which is melodic and emotional, yet shaped in a fresh and original manner.

Music Style New Romantic/New Age

Musical Influences Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, Ives, Stockhausen

Similar Artists Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea in their more classical style

Artist History American born Richard Trythall is an internationally acclaimed composer-pianist who, for the past 36 years, has lived in Rome, Italy. Recipient of the Rome Prize in Musical Composition, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Naumburg Recording Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, as well as composition commissions from the Fromm Music Foundation, the Dorian Woodwind Quintet, and the Gruppo Percussione Ricerca (Venice, Italy), his compositions have been performed throughout the world at, among others, New York's Carnegie Recital Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Tanglewood Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Gaudeamus Festival in Holland, the Settembre Musica Festival of Turin, the Nuova Consonanza Festival in Rome, the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, and the Darmstadt Festival in Germany. Recordings of his piano, instrumental and electronic music are available on the American record label, CRI, as well as on the ReR Records (England), Minstrel (Italy), Col Legno/ATOPOS and Thorofon (German) labels. As a concert pianist, Trythall won First Prize in the Kranichsteiner Competition for Interpreters of Contemporary Piano Music held in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1969. Since then, he has performed widely in Europe and has recorded extensively for the Italian radio (RAI). His solo piano concerts stress American music and include his own piano compositions as well as music by Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton and others. The American label, Centaur Records, has issued a CD of his performance of the piano music of Charles Ives (CRC 2285) and a new CD of his transcriptions and performance of the piano music of "Jelly Roll" Morton was issued in 2002 by the Italian company, Musicaimmagine (MR 1047).

Instruments Piano

Albums Out of Bounds

Press Reviews "Keyboard" review of "Arabesque 2, Insieme, Solo and Fantasy" by Jim Aikin: "Four exquisite piano solos, performed by the composer. Primarily a consonant harmonic language, but far more sophisticated in line and nuance than the typical folk piano recording." Review by Enrico Pieranunzie in "Pianotime": "... a journey in search of emotion, of sound as seduction...Trythall's compositions are conceived as if they were improvisations, in which the repetition and expansion of basic melodic cells gives the composition the character of a conversation - a soliloquy intended to reach others." Review in "Suono": ".. original and personal music ... His is a vision in which the piano regains its expressive integrity, its cantabile nature, its warmth, its melodic values, without remaining mired in romanticism...works full of fascination and of subtle invention." Review of "Mirage" Suite in "L'Unità", Rome: "...a complex group of deeply musical emotions ... a profound, spacious and extremely gentle "Rêverie"." Review of "Mirage" Suite in "Pianotime": "...a seductive improvisation with a rarefied harmonic atmosphere ...an astonishing soliloquy, very personal, of real charm."

Location Roma, Roma - Italy

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