- Yoheved Kaplinsky
Yoheved "Veda" Kaplinsky (born
March 23 ,1947 Tel Aviv ,British Mandate of Palestine [nowIsrael ] ) is an award-winning classical pianist, lecturer and professor of music at theJuilliard School. She is a frequent performer of chamber and orchestral music on American and Israeli radio and television.Education
She studied piano under
Ilona Vincze-Kraus at the Israel Academy of Music and earned her bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School as a student ofIrwin Freundlich . She continued her studies withDorothy Taubman .Professional career
She began her teaching career at Philadelphia University of the Arts and then taught at the Manhattan School of Music in 1987. Between 1989 and 1997 she taught at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.
In 1993 she began to teach at the Juilliard School. She became the chairperson of the Piano Division in 1997. She has served as a frequent adjudicator at prestigious international competitions, among them include the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Texas, where her studentJoyce Yang won a second prize in 2005. She has been appointed by the Juilliard President Joseph Polisi as the Susan Rose Chair in piano and Artistic Director of the Juilliard School's Pre-College division.Awards and honors
She was a second-prize winner of the J.S. Bach International Competition in Washington, D.C. and regularly performs at the Pianofest in
Long Island , N.Y. and the Cliburn-T.C.U. Institute. She has performed at theAspen Music festival and Bowdoin Summer festival since 2004 and 1995 respectively, and has served on the faculty of both. She won the Presidential Scholars Teacher Recognition Award in 2003.References and external links
*cite news |title= Veda's children play on (free article preview) |url= http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1K1-11a40d0000041074.html |publisher=
Fort Worth Star-Telegram | first=Tim |last=Madigan |date= May 15, 2005
* [http://www.juilliard.edu The Juilliard School]
*Ashkenazy, Vladimir. Collins Encyclopedia of Classical Music. Collins; new ed (2000) (ISBN 0-00-472390-2).
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