Larry Clark (b. 1963) is Vice President for Carl Fischer Music in New York. At Carl Fischer he serves as Editor-in-Chief and coordinates all of Carl Fischer's publishing in all genres of music. Prior to this appointment he served as an Instrumental Music Editor for Warner Bros. Publications in Miami. His diverse background includes serving as the Director of Bands at Syracuse University and considerable public school teaching in the state of Florida.

Larry is well known as a composer and arranger of music for band and orchestra. His pieces have been performed internationally and appear on numerous contest/festival performance required music lists. He is an ASCAP award-winning composer, has over 200 publications in print and is in demand to write commissions for bands and orchestras across the country. Recent commissions include works for James Madison University Wind Symphony and the Palm Beach County High School Honor Band. His music is characterized by rhythmic verve, colorful scoring and playability at every performance level.

Larry's music has been influenced by variety of composers and teachers. He credits his father, a long time band director in Florida, for teaching him the joy of music. He was influenced early in his writing career by Robert W. Smith. His decision to pursue composition and arranging was influence further by Dr. John Hillard, composition professor at James Madison University. Dr. Pat Rooney, director of bands at James Madison University, gave Larry his first performance opportunities by performing his arrangements with the popular Marching Royal Dukes. Larry considers himself to be a product of the school band movement. His works are highly influenced by the standard band repertoire of composers such as Holst, Grainger, Schuman and Persichetti.

Larry is in demand as a clinician and guest conductor around the country. He has presented clinics recently at the Midwest Clinic, the New York State School Music Association conference, the Texas Music Educators Association conference, the Ohio Music Educators Association conference, the Florida Music Educators Association conference and the Wisconsin Music Educators Association conference as well as numerous guest-conducting appearances nationally.

He is co-author with Sandy Feldstein of the innovative new band method The Yamaha Advantage.  He holds a Bachelors Degree in Music Education from Florida State University and Masters Degrees in Conducting and Composition from James Madison University in Virginia.