about vicki larnach

For over 25 years, Vicki’s music has been recommended worldwide by Natural Therapists, Fitness Instructors, families and schools, for its immediate positive effects.

 

Vicki Larnach, studied classical piano, jazz arranging and improvisation at the Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Music for Film and Music Production at the Australian Film and Television School, and teacher training at Wollongong Institute of Education.
She payed her dues in Sydney and NSW during the 70s as keyboard player for club acts and session recordings, accompanying ballet classes, pantomimes, weddings etc
In Venezuela during the 80s, she was keyboard player for Maria Conchita Alonso and band Tinajas, in a fifty concerts tour and TV appearances.

Vicki was Musical Director for “The Rocky Horror Show” in Caracas and recorded piano on the album Negocios by Giordano Di Marzo.
She developed and taught Initiation Musical at the Conservatorium of Music for the Philharmonic Orchestra, Caracas and converted this to the English version, Music For The Very Young for schools, pre schools and the Childcare Diploma Course, TAFE, in Sydney.

She composed, produced and independently released albums Lumia, Gardens In The Snow and Levitate, which are sold worldwide.

Her compilation CD, Relax, was a covermount on Family Circle Magazine, September 2003, which sold 52,000 copies in Australia and new Zealand.

Advisor on the panel for ABC’s SING '93, her songs Wear A Hat, Solar and Little String Bag appear in 1993 and 1999 SING. Songs from her children’s album, Leave It To Us have been used by the South Australian Skin Cancer Research Foundation promotions and are performed by schools and choirs worldwide.

Vicki composed three songs for animated film Marko Polkadotz (work in progress) by Leonard Lee who has said of Vicki’s work, “Vicki Larnach is a hypnotist, a magician. She has the ability to create magnetic sounds which stick to people’s brains like fridge magnets.”

Her video We're Doing Kyoto Anyway features on the Live Earth 2007 website and Youtube.  

She narrated, composed and produced the musical score for an audio book, Why Women Weep. Vicki composes music for short films, websites, corporate and therapeutic DVDs, CDs and is a producer for media site Revo Stock.

Recently she has written the book, lyric and music for her new musical "The Power Of Brillianteen".

Bruce Griffiths, television writer of twenty plus years: Denton, Enough Rope, Good News Week ... said of her work on this musical,
“A remarkable debut - each song had me thinking ‘this shouldn’t be in an unheard musical by an unknown writer; it belongs in a major work with major backing and major attention’.”

Married to video producer Jim Hare, Vicki is a member of the Australian Writer Guild, APRA and AMCOS.