While a student, Tryon received the RAM's highest award in piano playing; she also won the coveted Boise Scholarship, which enabled her to study with Jacques Février in Paris (1955–56).
Since 1959, Tryon has appeared as soloist and recitalist in major British concert halls and in Europe, South Africa, Canada, and the United States.
Within North America, Tryon has appeared in such cities as Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Washington, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Tryon was among the first concert and recording artists of the front rank to recognise the significance of the new music technologies and the internet, and is unique in having created a large number of MIDI sequences for web-based distribution.
Tryon's repertoire is large, ranging from Bach and Scarlatti to contemporary composers; it also includes more than sixty concertos and a significant amount of chamber music.
She is well known for her interpretations of the romantics; when the BBC launched its Radio Enterprises record label, some years ago, Tryon's performance of Rachmaninov's 'Etudes Tableaux', op.
Likewise, her ongoing series of the complete piano music of Claude Debussy, represents a special passion: she has twice performed this repertoire in a demanding cycle of five successive recitals.
Tryon's recording Debussy Songs, performed with soprano Claudette LeBlanc, won a Canadian Juno Award for "best classical album" in 1994.
[citation needed] In the early stages of her career she made a number of records for Saga, Lyrita and Educo, but full details of these remain to be compiled.