Larry Wallach is the Livingston Hall Chair in Music at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, where he has taught for five decades. He is a performer, composer, musicologist, and educator whose interests span the history of Western music up to the present day, with particular focus on baroque and modern repertories. He has published articles about Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms, and as pianist performed all the Ives violin sonatas. He is a founding board member of the Berkshire Bach Society.
Dr. Wallach is active as a keyboard player on harpsichord, organ, and piano, collaborating with Ronald Gorevic, Paul Green, the Avanti Wind Quintet, John Cheek, Daniel Stepner, Stephen Hammer, Lucy Bardo, Paul Green, Susanna Ogata, Allan Dean, Ronald Barron, the Berkshire Bach Society chorus, Crescendo, and Anne and Eva Legêne. He has organized and performed in a concert for the Bard Retrospective Festival for Charles Ives in 1996, for the Housatonic River Festival Concert in 2004, for the Boston Early Music Festival in 2009, and for a program of music for four harpsichords that was performed in Norfolk CT, Great Barrington, MA, Albany NY and Hunter NY in 2009 and 2010.
His compositions, primarily of chamber music, have been performed in New York, New England, Texas, California, and elsewhere. In 2020, his orchestral composition “Species of Motion” was recorded by the Janacek Philharmonic in the Czech Republic. He started writing music reviews for the Columbia College newspaper and resumed in 2009 for the Berkshire Review of the Arts.
