Larry Bell

SAI National Arts Associate Larry Bell lives in Boston, where he teaches composition at the Boston Conservatory and theory at the New England Conservatory Continuing Education and Preparatory Divisions. He was the first finalist in music in the Berlin Prize competition. In May 1999, Mahler in Blue Light, for saxophone, cello, and piano, which has been played by over 30 trios, will receive its premiere arranged for clarinet, cello, and piano.

Premieres

In March 1997, the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, in Baltimore, MD, conducted by Jed Gaylin, gave the world premiere of Bell's Idumea Symphony. In April 1998, the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra premiered "The Sentimental Muse" a Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, with Thomas Sleeper conducting and Kathryn Sleeper soloing. In March 1999, William Drury and the Jordan Winds will give the first performance of Short Symphony for Band at Jordan Hall, in Boston. Pianist Sara Davis Buechner will introduce Reminiscences and Reflections, 12 preludes and fugues, in Boston, Mar. 1999, and again at Merkin Hall, New York, NY, Apr. 27, 1999.

Performances

In 1998, Larry Bell, piano, and Eric Bartlett, cello, performed River of Ponds at St. Stephen's Church, New York, NY (Feb.), on the North/South Consonance series, and again at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens, NY (May). A concert of Bell's music at the Boston Conservatory, Mar. 1998, included Bell and Bartlett in Caprice for Solo Cello, The Black Cat, River of Ponds, and The Parable of the Parabola (for piano); and Ayano Ninomiya playing the violin solo In Memory of Roger Sessions.

Publications

All works published by Casa Rustica.

Recordings

Piano Concerto; Bell and the Russe Philharmonic Orchestra; Vienna Modern Masters #3037 CD. River of Ponds; Bartlett, cello, Lurtsema, narrator, Sarah Clarke, viola; North/South Recordings #1018 CD.