Larry Douglas Embury was born in Calgary, Alberta, at age 3, sitting in church, he fingered notes being played by the organist, and longed to be at a keyboard. When Larry was four, his father (a barn fiddler) sold the family car to get Larry a piano, taking the streetcar to work. Larry had as his example the career of his grandfather, who had been a kapellmeister in his native Germany.

When he was only ten, Larry started to perform publicly as a soloist, and appeared as the opening act for Stuart Hamblin, one of the Sons of the Pioneers who composed the well-known hymn, "It Is No Secret." At 13, Larry began serious organ lessons, while continuing to study piano. He soon began to play organ in church.

At 15, he won a Youth for Christ International piano competition, and, at 20, was engaged by the Baldwin Piano Company to play both piano and organ at the Seattle World's Fair. Shortly after, the Larry Douglas Trio became a popular attraction at the Camlin Hotel's famous Cloud Room. After getting a taste of other possibilities by performing with the Desilu Orchestra, Embury moved to the San Francisco Bay area where he organized a home organ festival called Organ Holiday on the Beach at the Coconut Grove in Santa Cruz. He was the first to present the world-famous theatre organist, George Wright, on an electronic theatre organ. Embury then moved to Los Angeles to work as assistant to pianist/conductor José Iturbi.

In 1972, Larry began an association with the Rodgers Organ Company (Oregon), where, as Director of Product Development and Promotion, he participated in the design, creation, and introduction of several important electronic instruments, including "The Topper," a five-manual electronic organ for Carnegie Hall, New York City, and Virgil Fox's second Rodgers touring organ, the "Royal V." He also designed a four-manual Rodgers combination classic and theatre organ, the first time that the two entirely different tonal palettes had been successfully combined in one electronic instrument.

A restaurant was built for Larry Douglas Embury's musical talents by Bill Brewer in Daly City, California, so Larry moved back to the Bay Area to become organist of the highly successful "Pizza and Pipes." He recorded several albums on Brewer's organ as well as on a nearby, 4-manual, 28-rank WurliTzer in Redwood City.

Larry has 5 CDs available exclusively on this website. Two of these CDs, Classical Love Songs and Amazing Grace, were recorded on Larry's own Baldwin concert grand piano. This piano carries the Papal seal, having been purchased for the visit of, and blessed by, the Pope in 1987 when he visited Mission Carmel (founded by the legendary Father Junipero Serra). His "Center Stage" CD was recorded on the Brewer 4/28 WurliTzer.

Larry Douglas Embury has released an innovative CD/DVD's, with new state-of-the-art complex visual component featuring the DVD debut of the Kaleidoplex™ Digital Light Organ. "Sonic Bloom," features Larry on both piano and organ, often with bass and drums for a jazz sound. The unique packaging by DuoArts, with both DVD Video and CD Stereo in the same package, makes Larry's talent available on theatre systems with 5.1 surround sound, or on any conventional CD player.

"Sonic Bloom" was recorded on the great, four-manual Möller organ at Atlanta's Fox Theatre, and with a Steinway concert grand, plus string bass and drums, in Atlanta's Allgood Productions recording studio. Dr. William T. Allgood, a well known classical bassoonist turned engineer, has supervised this first releases of CD/DVD.