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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