Lewis Kaplan

Lewis Kaplan is an American violinist. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey. [ [http://www.juilliard.edu/asp/fsnew/faculty_details.php?FacultyId=116&School=College&Division=Music Lewis Kaplan] , Juilliard School. Accessed December 20, 2007.] He resides on the Upper West Side in New York City with his wife, Adria. He is a senior professor in violin and chamber music at the Juilliard School in New York.

Lewis Kaplan's chamber and violin students have included Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Pinchas Zukerman, Kyung-Wha Chung, Pamela Frank, Maria Alanen, Artur Kaganovskiy and Cho-Liang Lin.

His students have played with Orchestras such as the Lahti Orchestra and the London Philharmonic. His students have also played in venues such as Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall.

He is a founder of the Aeolian Chamber Players and a co-founder of the Bowdoin International Music Festival. He was a juror for the 2007 Sendai International Music Competition. He has also judged other competitions, like the Brussels competition.

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* [http://www.lewiskaplan.net/ Official site.]
* [http://www.simc.jp/2007/jury/kaplan_e.html Sendai International Music Competition 2007]
* [http://www.summermusic.org/faculty_violin.htm Bowdoin International Music Festival]