Larry Luttinger is eclectically employed as arts administrator, percussionist, and music educator throughout Upstate New York.
He is the Founder and ExecutiveDirector of the Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profitperforming organization that presents jazz in concert, cabaret, scholastic, andfestival settings across the region, to an annual audience of 80,000 in publicand in schools.
Luttinger has served as Chairman of the Syracuse University Music Industry Departmentand Director of SU Jazz Ensembles. He has also chaired the Music Departments ofthe Summerfame High School for the Performing Arts and the Metropolitan Schoolfor the Arts, and he was Executive Treasurer of the International Association for JazzEducation-NYS Chapter. He is recipient of the 2008 Updowntowner Award forExcellence, the 2010 Civic Morning Musicals Ruth Edson Award, the 2010Cazenovia College Jazz ‘N’ Caz award, and is a member of the SAMMYS Hall ofFame and the Liverpool Fine Arts Hall of Fame.
As aperforming artist, he has been a member of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra since 1986, and he plays drum set for the CNY Jazz Orchestra. He recorded and toured extensivelyfor the award-winning Society for New Music during his 14-year tenure astheir percussionist. He has performed with many well known jazz artists,including Rob McConnell, Clark Terry, Grady Tate, Frank Foster, Benny Golson,Jimmy Heath, Slide Hampton, Buddy DeFranco, Doc Severinson, Bucky Pizzarelli andHoward Alden, Lorne Lofsky, Lena Horne, Maxine Sullivan, The Four Freshmen, PhilWoods and Antonio Hart, among many others.
He has more than 50 touring show credits including Sugar Babies,Grand Hotel, City of Angels, Will Rogers Follies, The Producers, FrankSinatra Jr, Aretha Franklin, Ben Vereen, Suzanne Somers and Johnny Mathis. Hehas toured or performed with dozens of rock personalities, including ChuckBerry, Del Shannon, Chubby Checker, Petula Clark, and the Moody Blues.
Luttinger livesin Liverpool, NY with his wife Margaret, anorganizational performance consultant, and their sons Jake and Max.