Larry Kutcher

Creativity is at the heart of all that he engages in.
Larry started studying classical violin at the age of six. He moved on from there into the drums and guitar. He had always heard such wondrous music so clearly inside his head, that he eventually settled on the piano. It was with the piano that Larry could more fully realize and express all the music flowing through him.
He grew up in an amazing musical environment, his mother being an opera singer and father being a jazz drummer. From the age of six, Larry listened to everyone from Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Bach, Beethoven, and also Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Art Tatum, Miles Davis, and so many more great musicians and composers.
Later, it was artists like The Beatles, The Who, Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell and eventually the great prog-rock and jazz fusion groups like Yes, ELP, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Chick Corea, Jean Luc Ponty, Weather Report, and Pat Metheny, that fired his imagination into many other genres of music ... including folk, rock, pop, electronica, ambient, film scores, and various experimental forms of music as well.
He gained much experience early on in his career touring, writing, arranging, and recording with a wide variety of musicians and artists.

Larry eventually toured Europe with his own synthesizer based progressive rock and jazz fusion music.
Being heavily influenced by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention early on, he also developed theatrical and comedic skills which eventually led him to working with one of Zappa's great guitarists Steve Vai, in the early 80's.
Together, they experimented with strange and wondrously absurd performance art concepts. Larry would improvise poetic "rants" for hours in the studio and Steve would construct intense music around these verbal excursions.
Larry's piece "Little Pieces of Seaweed", a surreal explosion of stream of consciousness poetry, was on Steve Vai's album Flex-Able Leftovers.
Larry performed with Vai's band in the early 80's, which included former Zappa alumni Tommy Mars.
This led him to experiment even further with performance art and musical theatre, which included becoming the musical director for the Los Angeles based improvisational troupe, The Right Brain Theatre.
Larry has been on quite a varied musical path. Whether it's performing his solo piano works, experimenting with ambient soundscapes, playing with rock, jazz fusion, and prog-rock groups, or composing music for film, his artistry and raw emotional intensity truly touch his audiences.
Recently, Larry has been performing solo piano and multi keyboard works as well, in and around Los Angeles.
Below are a couple of solo piano pieces performed live on Christmas Eve 2007 at Kulak's Woodshed. www.kulakswoodshed.com
Kulak's Woodshed Christmas Eve '07 w/Larry Kutcher -"A Child's Prayer"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_quhx8UOCg
Kulak's Woodshed Christmas Eve '07 w/L. Kutcher -"The Immense Night"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBaku732OL8