Larry Kerchner composer / arranger

Larry Kerchner is a composer, lyricist, arranger, and producer with years of experience in the music industry, having received his extensive musical education at Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory of Music. He is a voting member of The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, a two-time GRAMMY Award nominee, and an Individual Artist Fellowship recipient. He is also a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, and has had his work performed at several ASCAP Songwriters’ Showcases. He is on the Board of Directors of The Duke Ellington Center For the Arts, and is a member of The New York Sheet Music Society, The American Federation of Musicians, as well as the Manhattan Association of Clubs and Cabarets.

Larry has been the behind-the-scenes writing force for many well-known shows and recordings through his numerous works-for-hire. His song, Winter In Manhattan, was performed by Michael Feinstein in his Swing In the Holidays engagement at the Loews Regency, where, nightly, it struck an appreciative nerve with Michael’s audiences. New York Times critic, Stephen Holden, praised this fresh addition to The Great American Songbook as “Larry Kerchner’s soft-focus cityscape of New York.” Larry recently won the 2013 Concerts for City Greens Songwriting Competition, with Winter In Manhattan as the winning entry.