VIP Biography for
Ruth Barton Gatrell
 | Ruth Barton Gatrell |
| Industry | Composers Guild |
| Title | President |
| Expertise | Composition, music typesetting, Gatrell Publishing Co., conductor Ruth Gatrell Singers |
| Current Organization | Composer Guild |
| Type of Organization | Nonprofit to help composers at any level of endeavor in every way possible |
| Major Product | Sponsoring Composers Guild Annual Composition Contest, deadline August 31st, and presenting four concerts of new works by composers each year and various classes |
| Area of Distribution | International |
| University/Degree | B.A., University of Utah, 1942 |
| Born | December 23, 1921, Farmington, Utah |
| Affiliations | Docent at Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum |
| Hobbies & Sports | Photography, travel, camping and family activities, hiking, cake decorating, gardening, family history, providing music for church services, sewing, letter writing, offering encouragement and opportunities for other composers |
| Career Accomplishments | Learned to read music at age 3 by sitting by her sister Helen as she practiced the piano. As requested, each time she stopped she would point to the music where she would start to play, and by watching where she placed her hands, learned to read music. By age 5 she played piano prelude music for Primary Conference. She played her first professional job as a violinist at age 11, was concertmistress of youth orchestra and concertmistress of University of Utah Symphony for 3 years. Compositions, many of them award winning, include a cantata, choral, children's, popular songs, arrangements, and solos for piano and violin. The Ruth Gatrell Singers give several concerts of her original music each year |
| Work History | 1942-43, Science Teacher, Salt Lake City School District; 1943-45, Microtechnician, University of Utah Medical School; 1945-48, Violinist, Utah Symphony; 1986-present, President of Composers Guild |
| Children | Shwana B.G. Dortzbach, 1946; Dr. Cloyd B. Gatrell, 1948; Dr. Arn B. Gatrell, 1950; Garth B. Gatrell, 1952; Aleta B.G. Grandy, 1954; Tamara B.G. Van Tassell, 1956; Lance B. Gatrell, 1960; Quinn B. Gatrell, 1961; 45 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren |
| Spouse | Wallace Bassett Gatrell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret'd |
| Married | July 18, 1945 |
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