Yoheved Kaplinsky
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Yoheved "Veda" Kaplinsky (born March 23, 1947 Tel Aviv
, British Mandate of Palestine [now Israel
]) is an award-winning classical pianist, lecturer and professor of music at the Juilliard School. She is a frequent performer of chamber and orchestral music on American and Israeli radio and television.
at the Israel Academy of Music and earned her bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School as a student of Irwin Freundlich
. She continued her studies with Dorothy Taubman
.
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 student Joyce 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.
Since 2006 she has been Professor of Piano in the Texas Christian University School of Music.
, N.Y. and the Cliburn-T.C.U. Institute. She has performed at the Aspen
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.
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
, British Mandate of Palestine [now Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
]) is an award-winning classical pianist, lecturer and professor of music at the Juilliard 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-KrausIlona Vincze-Kraus
Ilona Vincze-Kraus was a well known teacher of current classical piano pedagogues in the US.- Education and Professional History :...
at the Israel Academy of Music and earned her bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School as a student of Irwin Freundlich
Irwin Freundlich
Irwin Freundlich was a prominent teacher at Juilliard starting in 1935. He studied with James Friskin and Edward Steuermann at the Institute of Musical Art, which merged with the Juilliard Graduate School in 1926 to became the current Juilliard School of Music.His wife, Lillian Freundlich was a...
. She continued her studies with Dorothy Taubman
Dorothy Taubman
Dorothy Taubman , is an American music teacher, lecturer and founder of the Taubman Institute of New York, who developed the "Taubman Approach" to piano playing. Her approach to piano technique is based on an analysis of the motions needed for virtuosity and musical expression, but at first earned...
.
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
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas and is hosted by Van Cliburn Foundation. It was created by Fort Worth area teachers in honor of Van Cliburn, who had won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition four years prior with Tchaikovsky's...
in Texas, where her student Joyce Yang
Joyce Yang
Joyce Yang is a classical pianist.She began playing piano at age four as her aunt's first piano student . At age nine, Yang went to New York with her mother and aunt to play for Yoheved Kaplinsky...
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.
Since 2006 she has been Professor of Piano in the Texas Christian University School of Music.
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 IslandLong Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
, N.Y. and the Cliburn-T.C.U. Institute. She has performed at the Aspen
Aspen
Populus section Populus, of the Populus genus, includes the aspen trees and the white poplar Populus alba. The five typical aspens are all native to cold regions with cool summers, in the north of the Northern Hemisphere, extending south at high altitudes in the mountains. The White Poplar, by...
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.