Larry Minsky has received national recognition for his vibrant and appealing jazz piano compositions for students. Larry studied music theory and composition at the Aaron Copland Music School in New York Larry has performed in rock, jazz bands, restaurants, and many clubs. Concurrently he contiued to study jazz and classical music. Many of his composed piano pieces have been represented in the National Federation of Music Clubs. Articles on improvisation have also appeared Clavier music magazine His creative output includes many solo jazz albums and arrangements of standards published by Alfred and KJOS, all of which are educational supplemental libraries of piano music written specifically to correlate with all piano methods. In addition there are recorded works -not all in print-on cds and digital formats.