Larry Bell

Larry Bell is an American composer and pianist whose work has been widely performed. Bell, a graduate from Julliard, studied composition with Vincent Persichetti and Roger Sessions, solfège with Renee Longy, and piano with Joseph Bloch and Joseph Rollino in Rome. Bell’s work has been performed by numerous international ensembles, including the Atlanta Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the RAI Orchestra of Rome, the Julliard Philharmonic, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Ruse Philharmonic of Bulgaria, the Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston, the OENM (Salzburg Mozarteumm), and at festivals in Ravinia, Aspen, Valencia, Pontino, San Salvador, Portugal, Russia, Ljubljana, Australia, New Zealand, Edinburg. As a pianist, Bell has performed across the United States, in Italy, Austria, and Japan, and his work has been broadcast by several organizations, including the WGBH-FM Radio, NPR, and Radio Amsterdam. Bell has received several accolades for his work, including a Rome Prize, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received grants from numerous organizations, including the American Music Center, the American Symphony Orchestra League, and Meet the Composer, and has served as a composer in residence at Bennington College, the Woodstock/Fringe Festival, the American Academy of Rome, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, The Rivers School, and the Hartt School. Recordings of Bell’s works are produced by North/South Recordings, Barking Dog Records, Vienna Modern Masters, New England Conservatory Recordings, Pont Neuf, and Albany Records. Bell is represented by Rosalie Calabrese Management, and teaches composition at the Berklee School of Music in Boston.

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