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Composer's BureauLarry Thomas BellBiography Recognized by the The Chicago Tribune as "a major talent," composer Larry Bell has been awarded the Rome Prize, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and the Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Bell's music has been widely performed in the United States and abroad by such orchestras and ensembles as the Seattle Symphony, RAI Orchestra of Rome, Julliard Philharmonia, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Ruse Philharmonia (Bulgaria), Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, University of Miami Symphony, ÖENM (Austria), Boston Chamber Music Society, Speculum Musicae, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, and Music Today( NYC), as well as at festivals in Ravinia, Aspen, Valencia (Spain), Pontino (Italy), San Salvador, Russia, and New Zealand. The Julliard String Quartet premiered Bell's first String Quartet, written when the composer was only twenty-one. His music has also been heard on WQXR, WGBH, RAI 3, and National Public Radio. Recordings of Bell's works appear on North/South, Barking Dog Records, and Vienna Modern Masters labels. As a pianist Bell performs his music regularly and has championed works by Frederic Rzewski, Vincent Persichetti, and other America composers. He has given recitals throughout the United States, as well as in Italy, Austria, and Japan. Bell is frequently heard on Boston's WGBH-FM radio, has given a live broadcast on the World Wide Web of his trio Mahler in Blue Light, and performed as soloist on CDs of his Piano Concerto and Piano Sonata and as assisting artist for The Black Cat and River of Ponds. Bell's music is published by Casa Rustica Publications and Ione Press, a division of ECS Publishing. Bell received his DMA from The Julliard School, working with Vincent
Persichetti and Roger Sessions, and later taught in Juilliard's
Pre-College Division. A member of the composition faculty of The
Boston Conservatory since 1980, Bell also teaches at the New
England Conservatory of Music.
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