"Carter Larsen's Fantasia Suite is creating a breakthrough with his twenty-first century Neo-Romantic approach. Larsen has embraced the summation of our classical culture in music, while exploding into another dimension of creativity", declares Andréa Van de Kamp, Chairman Emeritus of the Music Center in Los Angeles.

Twenty first century composer Carter Larsen has written in excess of 50 substantial piano works for Fantasia Suite, thereby exceeding the solo piano output of most of history's greatest and most prolific composers including Mozart, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff.

Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Larsen began piano and composition at the age of six.  He graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music pursuing a dual career as a composer and pianist.  Larsen studied under Conservatory president Milton Salkind (piano) and the legendary John Adams (composition). Subsequently, Larsen worked with Peter Feuchtwanger and Ruth Nye in London as well as Vlado Perlemuter (Ravel's assistant) in Paris.

Larsen's compositional prowess is backed by his direct lineage to many of history's greatest composers including Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Liszt, Brahms, Chopin, Ravel, and Shoenberg.

Beyond his success as a composer, Larsen is also renowned as a concert pianist and conductor in Europe, performing over four-hundred concerts to electrifying public and critical acclaim. Performances include the Royal Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra as soloist with television appearances and broadcasts on BBC and PBS and the largest FM stations. The composer's new music video "Appassionato" can be seen regularly on television worldwide and PBS on the Classic Arts Showcase.

Larsen has written music for the major studios including Paramount, Fox, PBS, BBC, and Discovery. He has been asked to compose music for over thirty prestigious films such as Paramount's Star Trek, Nosferatu, and the Mark of Zorro. Larsen's recent films, the Innocents Mission and Love Bytes, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and his feature Big Shots premiered at Cannes.

The composer is currently scoring Martin Scorsese's new film Something to Believe In, which features the Dalai Lama, as well as creating magnum opus, Fantasia Suite, a new art form and for many...leading the way for classical music. He also served as second conductor of the 70th Academy Awards.

"Carter Larsen's innovative artistry has universal appeal and promises to set the course for the next wave of contemporary music, " states Omega Medina, ten year head of classical Grammys.