I am Larry Tuttle. I compose music both for media and for the concert stage - I’m equally at home in both worlds. Over the years I have built up a small mountain of music writing for various production music libraries, writing in a wide variety of styles. I love music that is uplifting, joyous, exuberant and fun, and I love using my music to help tell a story on-screen. My main background is in orchestra (I learned the orchestra the fun way, from inside the bass section). I can provide virtual orchestration, and strings are a specialty of mine, both in a full orchestral setting and in smaller settings. I’m an expert in a couple of different notation softwares, which I use to do scores, lead sheets, orchestrations and charts of all kinds. I’m a thirty-year Finale user, but. these days I primarily use Dorico.

Larry Tuttle

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I am Larry Tuttle. I compose music both for media and for the concert stage - I’m equally at home in both worlds. Over the years I have built up a small mountain of music writing for various production music libraries, writing in a wide variety of styles. I love music that is uplifting, joyous, exuberant and fun, and I love using my music to help tell a story on-screen. My main background is in orchestra (I learned the orchestra the fun way, from inside the bass section). I can provide virtual orchestration, and strings are a specialty of mine, both in a full orchestral setting and in smaller settings. I’m an expert in a couple of different notation softwares, which I use to do scores, lead sheets, orchestrations and charts of all kinds. I’m a thirty-year Finale user, but. these days I primarily use Dorico.

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I am Larry Tuttle. I compose music both for media and for the concert stage - I’m equally at home in both worlds. Over the years I have built up a small mountain of music writing for various production music libraries, writing in a wide variety of styles. I love music that is uplifting, joyous, exuberant and fun, and I love using my music to help tell a story on-screen.

My main background is in orchestra (I learned the orchestra the fun way, from inside the bass section). I can provide virtual orchestration, and strings are a specialty of mine, both in a full orchestral setting and in smaller settings.

I’m an expert in a couple of different notation softwares, which I use to do scores, lead sheets, orchestrations and charts of all kinds. I’m a thirty-year Finale user, but. these days I primarily use Dorico.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Music composer at Frameworks Music
January 2, 2011 - Present
Composing production music
Music composer at Five Alarm Music
March 14, 2007 - Present
Composing production music
Music composer at University of Michigan
September 14, 2023 - February 11, 2024
Commissioned composition for large wind ensemble.
Music composer at Sonoton Music
October 4, 2003 - November 24, 2021
Composing production music
Music composer at Megatrax
April 14, 2010 - May 23, 2011
Composing production music
Music composer at University of Southern California
April 26, 2017 - February 27, 2018
Commissioned composition for university wind ensemble
Music composer at Boosey and Hawkes
February 15, 2011 - July 23, 2014
Compose production music
Orchestrator at Young Musicians Foundation
March 15, 2018 - August 16, 2018
Provide orchestration of Organ Concerto from composer's midi files
Production music and media composer
January 1, 1999 - Present
Wrote over a thousand pieces of production music for various music libraries; music licensed for shows and ads, including McDonald’s Shamrock Shake commercial, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Fox Sports Football, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show with Trevor Noah, BoJack Horseman, Access Hollywood, The Good Wife, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Supernatural, Nurse Jackie, Oprah Winfrey, Desperate Housewives, Malcolm in the Middle, Family Guy, The L Word, Pawn Stars, and more.
Concert composer
January 1, 2012 - Present
Concert composer for Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble; winner of the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Audience of the Future Composition Competition; first runner-up in the Keuris Composers Contest (Netherlands); commissions from universities and ensembles including the University of Michigan, Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble, California State University at Fullerton, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University of Southern California, Northern Arizona University, Baylor University, Clemson University, Wilfrid Laurier University, Louisiana State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, California State University at Northridge, University of Oregon, and University of Nebraska–Lincoln, among others.

Education

Music major at University of Washington
September 6, 1971 - June 12, 1973
Major in double bass, with courses in music theory, music history, orchestra, etc.
The National Music Camp at Interlochen
June 22, 1971 - August 24, 1971
The best music camp in the world, and the best summer of my life - wow!!
at University of Washington
January 11, 2030 - December 18, 2025
at National Music Camp (Interlochen, Michigan)
January 11, 2030 - December 18, 2025

Qualifications

Winner - Pittsburgh Symphony Audience of the Future Composition Competition
October 16, 2013 - April 16, 2014
2nd place - Keuris Composers Contest - Amersfoort, Netherlands
March 23, 2016 - October 26, 2016
Composition prize for Youth Symphony Orchestra

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education