Larry Wallach is a pianist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer who holds the Livingston Hall Chair in Music at Simon's Rock College of Bard.  He also teaches composition at Bard College.  He studied piano privately with Henry Danielowitz and Kenneth Cooper and was trained at Columbia University where he studied music history and composition.  He earned a Doctorate in Musicology in 1973.  In 1977 he joined a year-long National Endowment for the Humanities seminar at the University of North Carolina on performance practices in earlier piano music.  He has been an active performer or chamber music with harpsichord and piano, and or twentieth century music.  He is on the staff of summer early music workshops at World Fellowship.