Bass baritone Larry Picard, a native of Holyoke, Massachusetts, received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has worked with such innovators as Meredith Monk, Rhoda Levine, and Ann Baltz; and on the New York stage he played Isidor Straus in the musical Titanic; J.P. Morgan in Ragtime; and Calman Jacoby in The Open Gate (a musical adaptation of the Isaac Bashevis Singer novel The Mansion.)
