Lawrence Blatt

New age guitarist Lawrence Blatt spent his Indiana childhood beginning violin lessons at eight and later joining the Indiana Youth Symphony while still in junior high. He also took up the bass before discovering the guitar at twelve. After earning an undergraduate degree from Indiana University in both music and microbiology, he moved to Los Angeles to complete a master’s and a Ph.D. in science. Five years in Boulder, Colorado, followed, during which he worked with Laurence Juber on guitar; Pierre Bensusan and Brian Gore provided additional instruction. In 2001 he settled in San Francisco. His first release, the self-produced Out of the Woodwork, appeared on his LMB Music imprint in 2006 and brought him the trade publication New Age Reporter’s Best New Artist honor. The 2008 follow-up, Fibonacci’s Dream, drew inspiration from the thirteenth-century mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci and climbed to number two on the same New Age Reporter chart. For his third album, The Color of Sunshine, issued on May 5, 2009, Blatt enlisted renowned new age guitarist Will Ackerman as producer after handling the first two projects himself.