Biografia Ha frequentato il Methodist College, a Fayette, Missouri, dove si è diplomato sia in piano che composizione con N. Louise Wright, che fin da principio riconobbe in lui spiccate doti musicali. La didattica è l'ambito a cui ha dedicato buona parte delle sue opere, soprattutto quella rivolta a bambini ed adolescenti.<br/ >Per vent'anni ha vissuto a New Orleans dove divenne anche animatore musicale nell'organizzazione di eventi, abbinando l'insegnamento privato e workshops con insegnanti. La seconda parte della sua vita la passò a Dallas. Gillock fu insignito per cinque volte dalla National Federation of Music Clubs con l'Award of Merit for Service to American Music e la sua biografia appare sull'International Who's Who of Musician. Da suoi contemporanei è stato definito "The Schubert of children's composers".
La sua musica ha molti cultori in Germania e Giappone.Morì a Dallas a settembre 1993 dopo una lunga malattia.
Opere (parziale)
Didattica Now I Can Play Book 1 Now I Can Play Book 2 Now I Can Play Book 3
Piano All the Way 1A Piano All the Way 1B Piano All the Way 2 Piano All the Way 3 Piano All the Way 4
Technic All the Way 1A Technic All the Way 1B Technic All the Way 2A Technic All the Way 2B
Theory All the Way Theory All the Way 1B Theory All the Way 2A Theory All the Way 2B
Brani brillanti e adattamenti pianistici Adagio Esotico Aeolian Harp Arabesque Sentimentale Ariel (a forest sprite) At the Ballet Autumn Is Here A Time for Us A Woodland Legend Bagdad Barcarolle Bells of Notre Dame Ben Blue Mood Blues Motif By a Sylvan Lake Cabaret Capriccieto Carnival in Rio Carnival in Rio (second part) Castanets Choral Prelude Classic Carnival Clowns Come Saturday Morning Command Performance Cossack Dance Cuckoo's Call Dancing in a Dream Dancing on the Levee Day by Day Deserted Planatation Drifting Cowboy Electronic Computer Elfin Pranks Entertainer Etude in A Major Etude in E Minor Etude in G Major (Tobaggan Ride) Festive Dance Festive Piece Fiesta Fifers Flamenco Flute Song and Dance Fog at Sea Fountain in the Rain French Doll Fur Elise Georgia on My Mind German Dance Op Glass Slipper Goldfish Happiness Happy Holiday Harlequin Haunted Tree Holiday in Paris Schirmer Horseback Ride In Old Vienna Journey in the Night The Juggler Last Spring Lazy Bayou Little Suite in Baroque Style Little Suite in C Love Story Madrigal Singers Maple Leaf Rag March of the Tin Soldiers March (from the Nutcracker Memory of Vienna Mirage Misty Moonlight Music Box Waltz My Toy Duck Mission Bells My Wild Irish Rose Night Serenade Nocturne Old Plantation Polynesian Nocturne Portrait of Paris Prelude Promenade Prowling Pussycat Rondo in Classic Style Royal Hunt Sarabande Seven Dwarfs Sleigh bells in the Snow Sevilla Sing We Noel Sonatina in C Sonatina in Classic Style Sonatina in G Sonatine Song from M*A*S*H Spanish Roses Stately Procession Sunrise Sunset Sunset Tarantella Three Jazz Preludes Toyland Two Indian Dances Valse Etude Valse Triste Viennese Rondo Viennese Rondo (secondo) Village Dance Yo Yo Tricks You Are So Beautiful You Light Up My Life You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Raccolte per piano solo Lyric Preludes in Romantic Style: 24 Short Piano Pieces in All Keys New Orleans Jazz Styles More New Orleans Jazz Styles Still More New Orleans Jazz Styles New Orleans Jazz Styles 3 books & CD pack New Orleans Jazz Styles, More NO. Jazz Styles, Still More N.O Jazz Styles CD New Orleans Jazz Styles, More N.O. Jazz Styles, Still More N.O Jazz Styles MIDI Seven Pieces in Seven Keys Solo Repertoire Book 1 Solo Repertoire Book 2 Solo Repertoire Book 3 Solo Repertoire Book 4 Young Pianist's First Big Note Solos Young Pianist's First Hymnal Young Pianist's First Christmas
Composizioni per duetti al piano Boogie Prelude Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy Espana Cani Fiesta Mariachi Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Jazz Prelude Liebesfreud March of the Three Kings March of the Toys Playing in the Park Sidewalk Cafe Trepak from Nutcracker Suite Viennese Rondo (secondo to solo)
Composizioni per terzetti al piano (a 6 mani) Little Sparrow Oriental Bazaar
Composizioni per 2 pianoforti On a Paris Boulevard Portrait of Paris (2nd piano part)
Composizioni per 2 pianoforti (a 8 mani)
Champagne Toccata
Collegamenti esterni