- Besides his work as a creative musician, Nuyts developed a wide range of other professional activities. From 1971 until 1987, he taught tone technique at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
- His 2002 composition 'Canticum Canticorum Salomonis', which he wrote for the mixed choir Musica Nova, won the 2005 Golden Tuning Fork, an award he received from the European Choral Society (AGEC).
- From 1950 until 1983, Nuyts worked for Flemish national broadcaster NIR (later renamed BRT), initially mainly as a guitarist in various radio ensembles, amongst which the Amusementsorkest (Variety Orchestra) of Francis Bay (1955-'56).
- Most famously, with a combo of twelve musicians of which he was the conductor, Nuyts worked on the immensely popular televised KRO circus show 'Piste', which ran for an incredible sixteen years (1959-1975) and was broadcast in Belgium and Switzerland as well.
- In 1966, Nuyts was awarded with the Franz Andelhoff Prize for his folk song arrangements.
- In 2010, an honorary concert, organized by the City of Antwerp, was bestowed upon him.
- In 1956, he was part of the Benero's Orchestra led by Jozef Verhelst, which represented NIR at the Golden Gondola Festival of Venice and won first prize by beating the West German entry, performed by the Helmut Zacharias orchestra; moreover, the Belgian team walked away with the Silver Gondola for best song of the competition as well, 'Venezia' (composed by Hans Flower and sung by Jean Walter). Nuyts had written a considerable part of the arrangements for the victorious Belgian show programme.
- He was invited as a juror of composition and performance contests in Belgium and abroad, amongst which choral festivals in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, France, and the Netherlands and orchestral contests in Bulgaria, Austria, and the former Yugoslavia.
- In the course of his long career with Belgian television, he accompanied Flemish artists as well as international stars including Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, Eddy Calvert, Anita Kerr, Dalida, Conny Froboess, Esther Ofarim, Udo Jürgens, and Engelbert Humperdinck.
- Between 1955 and 1997, he served the Belgian Association of Authors, Composers, and Publishers (SABAM) in many capacities: commission member, board member, secretary of the board, vice-president, and (1990-1997) managing director.
- Being a staff conductor of Flemish national TV, Gaston Nuyts was an obvious choice for the panel which judged all compositions that were submitted for the Belgian Eurovision preselection. He was a member of this selection committee on many occasions. "Not an easy job", Nuyts recalls, "since, usually, 99 percent of the material submitted turned out to be humbug - in other words: absolutely useless.".
- He performed as a guest conductor at Sender Freies Berlin.
- Besides his work as an arranger, gradually, Nuyts was given more and more commissions as a composer and conductor for national radio and television, working on - amongst other things - the TV concert series World Melodies (1960-'61), for which he arranged and conducted all music and in which he accompanied international stars from the United States, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Israel, and South Africa.
- Until 2001, he was president of the Belgian Society of Performance Rights (URADEX). Moreover, he was a member of the World Council of the International Performance Right Organisation (CISAC).
- He worked with studio orchestras in England, Denmark, and Sweden, with which he recorded music used for radio and television shows in the Netherlands, Belgium, and West Germany.
- Using his pseudonym Tony Vess, Nuyts was the musical director of several TV shows in the Netherlands.
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