Larry Minsky has received national recognition for his vibrant and appealing jazz piano compositions for students. Larry completed his bachelor of arts degree in political science at Queens College in New York and studied music theory and composition with Sol Berkowitz at the Aaron Copland Music School, also in New York. He is an independent studio teacher of classical and jazz styles in Florida and a former jazz pianist in New York City.

Larry's active professional career included performing in many rock bands, jazz bands, and restaurants and clubs as a soloist. In addition to performing at famous New York restaurants and hotels, including the Waldorf Astoria, Larry also performed with his own band. Concurrently he continued to study both jazz and classical music with top New York Instructors. Larry's music is represented on the National Federation of Music Clubs, and his articles on jazz improvisation have appeared in Clavier Magazine. His creative output includes many solo jazz albums and arrangements of jazz standards for the Looney Tunes Piano Library and the WB popular Piano Library, educational supplemental libraries of piano music written specially to correlate with all piano methods. Larry has a total of 22 published books mostly of original works and arrangements which are sold in music stores and online stores like Amazon. Many of the pieces have been recorded and can be heard on Youtube by Larry Minksy himself and many students have performed these pieces.