About Larry Hochman:

Larry has won a TONY award and a DRAMA DESK award for Best Orchestra- tions for the hit Broadway Show The Book of Mormon. Larry is a 2013 DRAMA DESK nominee for Chaplin.

His 4 other TONY nominations were for The Scottsboro Boys (2010, also Drama Desk nomination), Monty Python's Spamalot (2005, also Drama Desk nomination), Fiddler on the Roof (2004) and A Class Act (2001). Before his career as orchestrator, Larry spent years as an accompanist, rehearsal and pit pianist and conductor. He was the lead composer for Nickelodeon's hit series, The Wonder Pets, for which he has received five EMMY awards. He studied theory and composition at Manhattan School of Music (B.A.), East- man School of Music and Mannes College of Music with such noted compos- ers as Joseph Schwantner (Pulitzer Prize winner), Benjamin Lees, Nicholas Flagello and Ludmila Ulehla.

Orchestrations for other Broadway shows include Pippin, Chaplin, The Ad- dams Family, Jane Eyre, and Late Nite Comic. Larry has also orchestrated for recordings and concerts for such artists as Audra McDonald, Barbra Strei- sand, Mandy Patinkin, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Eric Idle, Hugh Jackman and Sir Paul McCartney. Larry is currently orchestrating the Broadway-bound musical Big Fish. Other orchestrations include 19 films (including Marvin Hamlisch’s “The Informant!” and several Disney films), 25 regional and Off Broadway shows (including Maury Yeston’s Death Takes a Holiday and Marvin Ham- lisch’s The Nutty Professor) and several video games.

Larry Hochman is the recipient of the New Jersey Theater Alliance 1998 Ap- plause Award for over 20 years of shows with Pushcart Players.