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COMPOSER

LARRY ALAN SMITH

Praised by The New York Times as “a young composer of great gifts”, LARRY ALAN SMITH has developed an international reputation as a composer, performer, educator and arts executive. Many of today’s outstanding soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras have performed and commissioned works by Larry Alan Smith. Upon hearing the world premiere of his one-act opera, Aria da Capo, the well-known Chicago-based critic, Claudia Cassidy, reported: “This is remarkable opera theatre…Smith has an ear for flaring brilliance…All this seems to me a true talent, primarily because I want to hear Aria da Capo again.”