Lar Duggan is an American jazz pianist, best known as an early, influential music teacher of Phish keyboardist Page McConnell.
In his 1987 Goddard College thesis,[1] McConnell wrote that Duggan was “the single most important person” in helping improve his improvisational playing.
Living close to New York City in the late 1950s, Duggan went to hear the jazz icons of that era, but ended up going to college in Boston where he studied for a few months with Margaret Chaloff.
Two years later, Philo records re-recorded half the songs and released an album in 1980, which was reviewed by Keyboard in October 1981.
Duggan has given private piano lessons over the years, including to Page McConnell when the latter was starting in Phish.