Gerald Moshell, Professor of Music, has taught at Trinity since 1977. He holds a B.A. from Pomona College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on Stravinsky operas and ballets. He has served as department chair for 17 of his years at Trinity.

     A conductor, pianist, and stage director, he has conducted and stage-directed many musical-theatre works -- operas and well as musical comedies -- and he has also done much orchestral conducting, both with professional and amateur groups.
     At Trinity, he conducted the Concert Choir from 1977 to 1997, the College Orchestra from 1977 to 1987, and, since 1977, he has conducted and directed over 75 musical-theatre productions of various types. With his production of "The Frogs" in 1996, Trinity became the first college or non-professional group of any kind to be featured on the cover of "The Sondheim Review," and, in 1992, he mounted the first-ever production of the entire "Falsettos Trilogy" of William Finn.                         
In the professional realm, he has mounted productions in Washington DC, Syracuse NY, Cambridge MA, and Boston MA. He served for four years as a member of the Connecticut State Commission on the Arts, and for 15 years he wrote both theatre criticism and music criticism for the Hartford Courant. In Fall 2006-Spring 2008, he will be on leave from Trinity to assume a joint appointment as Visiting Professor in the Departments of Theater and Music at Connecticut College (New London CT).