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About Dr L's Music 
After Larry's 20 year background is high tech, as a Nortel research scientist/manager and later an executive with a local startup, with a Masters and Ph.D. in electronic engineering, he has turned to his passion: music. As a professional, he performs classical, musical theater, jazz and pop. Classically trained in the U.S., he directs the choir at Agudath Israel and his music career includes seven years as youth music director at Temple Israel, lay cantorial work, accompanying students at the Kiwanis Music Festival and vocal/dance recitals since, and even playing keyboards in a local rock band. In 2004, he produced, composed, arranged and played all instrumentation for the new pop epic Cupid 911, which features outstanding, award-winning singers and virtuoso piano chops. In 2005, he produced, composed, arranged and played most instrumentation for The RadioSirens first release, "Fearless", and in collaboration with his daughter and son. He is working on upcoming CDs. Larry is pleased to be working with so many talented performers and to have the opportunity to make music together.
Dr L's formed as a small business in 1992, originally intended as a sideline business. Already entrenched since 1984 in a high technology career as a research scientist at Bell-Northern Research (35 publications) and later as a manager at Nortel, the parent company, Larry was looking for a professional way to explore his artistic side.
In 1999, Larry left Nortel to co-found a fiber optical startup called Optovation, which received its share of press during its existence. Larry held various positions within the company, including CEO in 2001-02. When the tech crash of '01-'02 occurred, the new startup couldn't survive. Larry left the company in July, 2002 and has been focusing on other activities since. Owing to the lack of a high tech scene in Ottawa since Larry left the startup, Dr L's has been able to thrive. From 1992-2002 Larry focused his activities on the "word of mouth" business from one vocal studio, that of the prominent Ottawa soprano Yoriko Tanno-Kimmons. For the 2002-3 season on, he was available to a wider clientele and was fortunate to work closely with four additional prominent Ottawa vocal studios (Dianne Baird, Stacey Ingrey, Charlotte Stewart and Judy Vachon) throughout the Kiwanis '03 and recital '03 seasons. Along the way, he also accompanied various recitals and productions and was delighted to be the audition accompanist for Mirvish Productions when the Stephanie Gorin company was casting for Mamma Mia in Ottawa. For the '03-'04 and '04-'05 seasons he worked with students from more than 10 vocal studios. Larry takes great pride in his ongoing contact with clients from the past. Many of his clients have gone on to successful music careers -- teaching, performing on Broadway, recording in L.A., etc. Larry has always been interested in Jewish music. He presently directs the Agudath Israel choir and has run the music program at Temple Israel since 1994. He produces original choral arrangements. Dr L's is now involved in pop music production. His first release was Cupid 911, featuring award-winning singers Stacey Ingrey, Becky Abbott and Brianna Szarka, and with lyrics by Lila Rose, who has credits in award-winning television programs. He looks forward to two '05 releases: the RadioSirens (released April, 2005) and Becky Abbott's debut CDs. Stay tuned! Dr L's has always been interested in digital recording technology, doing MIDI production since 1994. Equipped with a Mac G4, a Yamaha P-200 88 weighted key controller, a Roland U-20 keyboard, a Korg 05R/W sound module, many virtual instruments including a digitally sampled Gigasample Steinway B grand piano and "the Old Lady" 1923 Steinway D grand piano, and a MXL studio microphone, Dr L's Music is able to produce CDs that rival commercial studios in sound quality. And nowhere else can one get Dr L's acclaimed musical arrangements! He has produced hundreds of backups and numerous demos. Dr L's enjoys live performance, which for the most part is restricted to the Ottawa, Canada area or nearby. Dr L's expanded operations in 2003, aiming at the wider North American market which can be serviced with the digital recording technologies available today. Larry enjoys making music. He takes great joy in meeting, working with and trying his hardest to support artists at all levels.
Larry was classically trained as a piano player from the age of 4. In 1984 he gave a solo piano recital at the Canadian National Exhibition with the following program:
Larry sang with the Canadian Centennial Choir from 1986-88 and with the Cantata Singers of Ottawa, under well-known Laurence Ewashko's baton, from 1988-89, leaving to concentrate on his Ph.D. studies. Once the bulk of the Ph.D. work was out of the way, Larry joined HeadCount, a local Ottawa rock band, from 1991-93.
Larry has run the music program at Temple Israel religious school since 1994, and appeared as a lay cantor at Temple Israel on a regular basis from 1995-2003. He accompanies Temple Israel Friday night services. After accompanying in 2003, in 2004, he was appointed choir director at Agudath Israel, which often uses Dr L's original arrangements and compositions. He is the associate accompanist for the Kanata Children's Choir. Most recently, he has been appointed co-musical director for Ain't Seen Noth'n Yet, a professional musical theater company. In addition, Larry is in demand as a performer, appearing with any combination of piano, guitar and voice. Larry also does musical compositions. In addition to his classical and jazz works, he has written some serious choral Jewish sacred composition, feeling that there is a lack of repertoire in this genre, and has most recently composed and produced Cupid 911, a pop epic. He has appeared at various Ottawa venues, and on TV he has performed on CJOH TV, including being profiled on the weekly show "Regional Contact", as well as "the new RO".