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First name: Larry
Last name: Bell
Dates: 1952
Category: Quartet
Nationality: American
Opus name: Pianoquartet opus 36 (1991)
Publisher: Casa Rustica
Peculiarities: www.larrybellmusic.com; see:http://catalog.nypl.org/search~S1?/dPiano+quartets+--+Scores./dpiano+quartets+scores/1%2C2%2C271%2CE/frameset&FF=dpiano+quartets+scores&53%2C%2C106
Information: Recognized by The Chicago Tribune as a "major talent", composer Larry Bell has been awarded the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, and the Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Bell's music has been performed in many countries by many leading artists.The Julliard String Quartet premiered Bell's String Quartet No. 1, written when the composer was 21. Bell's music has been heard on WXQR, WGBH, RAI 3, and on a one-hour National Public Radio documentary devoted to his music. His Sacred Symphonies was recorded by the Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra and released in 1993 on the Vienna Modern Masters label. As a pianist, Bell has concertized in Italy, Austria, New York, and Boston as well as throughout the Northeast and Southeast. He is a champion of contemporary American music. In 1995, Larry Bell made his debut as a conductor at the Aspen (CO) Music Festival, and his "Blues Theme with Variations" was introduced at the Moscow Autumn Festival. On December 8 of 1996, his new work Mahler in Blue Light was premiered by 30 different trios through the auspices of the World-Wide Concurrent Premieres and Commission Fund. Larry Bell was born in Wilson, North Carolina in 1952. He taught theory and solfege at The Julliard School's Pre- College Division from 1979-1984. Since 1980, he has taught composition at The Boston Conservatory. In 1992, he was appointed to the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music.