Grammy nominee Larry Hoffman is an award-winning composer whose works have been performed throughout the United States and in Europe. While at the Peabody Conservatory he received grants from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard and the American Music Center. He was the recipient of Peabody’s Gustav Klemm Award and Otto Ortmann Prize for compositional excellence. During that time, his Music For Six Percussionists was a prizewinner in the National Percussive Arts Society Competition, and was subsequently published by Seesaw Music Publications in New York. He has enjoyed premieres and performances of his works in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Sweden. In 2007, he was commissioned by the Chicago Sinfonietta Orchestra to compose Three Songs For Bluesman And Orchestra, performed both at Dominican University and Symphony Center in Chicago in May, 2008. That year, Hoffman was nominated for a United States Artists Fellowship Award.
Hoffman is also an internationally regarded expert in the field of blues music. He has received multiple Living Blues Magazine critics awards as well as a WC Handy Award and multiple Handy nominations for his writings on blues music; his production of contemporary blues recordings; and his compilation, production, and annotation to historical blues compilations such as the Smithsonian Institution’s Mean Old World: The Blues From 1940 To 1994, and Sony-Universal’s Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues. The Smithsonian collection earned him a Grammy nomination for best liner notes. The Scorsese collection won two Grammy’s: for best liner notes, and best historical compilation. More detailed information can be found at http://www.myspace.com/lawrencehoffman.