Lewis Kaplan was born on November 10,1933 and is an American violinist, and pedagogue.
10 Facts About Lewis Kaplan
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Lewis Kaplan is a senior professor in violin and chamber music at the Juilliard School and has been on the faculty at Mannes School of Music since 1987, both located in New York City.
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In 2016, Lewis Kaplan co-founded and was named Artistic Director of the Portland Bach Festival in Portland, Maine.
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Lewis Kaplan is a founder of the Aeolian Chamber Players and a co-founder of the Bowdoin International Music Festival.
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Lewis Kaplan has served on the juries of numerous international competitions, including the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Fritz Kreisler, Mozart International, Japan International, Sendai, Joachim, Naumburg and Concert Artists Guild and Henryk Szeryng International.
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Lewis Kaplan is a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music in London and an honorary professor at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music in China.
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Lewis Kaplan has presented master classes at most of the well-known conservatories and schools worldwide, including the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria where he taught for 20 years.
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Lewis Kaplan has made numerous television appearances and has premiered more than 100 works, both as a soloist and with the Aeolian Chamber Players, by most of the well-known composers worldwide.
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Lewis Kaplan has appeared as violin soloist and as a conductor in Europe, Asia, and North America.
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Lewis Kaplan has performed as well with Michael Rabin, Jaime Laredo, Szymon Goldberg, Ruggiero Ricci, pianists Yefim Bronfman, Richard Goode, Rudolf Firkusny, Murray Perahia, Horacio Gutierrez and many others.