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LARRY TUTTLE
Larry Tuttle is the winner of the Pittsburgh Symphony’s 2014 H.J. Heinz Audience of the
Future Composition Competition. The PSO featured Larry’s winning work CHORALE AND
FIDDLE TUNE on its concert of April 2014.
Larry is a composer who moves freely across musical boundaries. He has composed for
symphony orchestra, for his own mixed ensembles (which feature Larry as one of the world’s
foremost performers on the Chapman Stick) and for film and television.
Trained extensively in double bass from an early age, Larry’s youth growing up in Seattle was
saturated with orchestral music. Larry’s bass mentors included Ron Simon, James Harnett and
jazz legend Gary Peacock, with whom Larry studied ear training and improvisation.
An obsession with the bass guitar and a long detour through rock and pop music (including two
albums released on Warner Brothers Records with the rock group RUSSIA) eventually led
Larry to an eclectic instrument called the Chapman Stick, and a pop-classical hybrid group
called FREEWAY PHILHARMONIC.
FREEWAY PHILHARMONIC went on to release four CDs. THROUGH THE GATES,
Larry’s disc of solo compositions for the Stick, is considered to be one of the landmark
recordings of that instrument. Larry and his partner violist Novi Novog now perform as
STRING PLANET.
Turning his attentions to concert music, Larry found success with his first orchestral work, the
aforementioned winner of the Pittsburgh Symphony contest. Larry is currently a composing
and performing member of CELA (Composers Ensemble of Los Angeles), a twelve-member
composers collective dedicated to developing and promoting new work.
As a media composer, Larry’s credits include the theme music for the PBS series LIFE PART
II, two independent film scores for director Nick McCallum, dozens of promos and
commercials and several short documentaries for director Stacey Stone. For a more complete
view of Larry and his partner Novi as media composers, visit www.elephantfeathersmusic.com