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Aaron Larget-Caplan, Guitar

 

“Aaron Larget-Caplan is a riveting artist whose musical styling begs immediate attention. His classical guitar performance was a treasure...”

-G. Acosta, Washington Post

 

With performances in Spain, Italy, & on both US coasts as a soloist & chamber musician, Aaron Larget-Caplan rides the razor's edge of the guitar. He is a unique performer and communicator, who is able to link the difficult & not in music as well as other art forms.  Born in the guitar capital of Oklahoma & raised in Colorado, Aaron began playing the classical guitar at age 16 & gave his debut at the Tabor Opera House one year later.  Since then he has devoted his life to the performance & study of the guitar, & the concert stage.  He has appeared repeatedly on National Public Radio in New York, Oregon, Colorado & Maine.

 

Aaron’s released his debut CD, Tracing a wheel on water in 2006 & features three world premiere recordings.  The great American composer Ned Rorem called it "Musical, affecting and skilled." (Click Here for reviews). Aaron’s second CD featuring works from the New Lullaby Project will be out in 2009, and new solo lullabies by composers David Leisner, Kevin Siegfried, Ryan Vigil, Mark Small, Eric Schwartz, Nolan Stolz, Scott Wheeler & many more (Click HERE for info).

 

A versatile musician, Aaron is the founder of ¡Con Fuego! a Spanish music and dance group. He also founded 'Diablo y Tango' a guitar & violin duo that focuses on the music of Paganini, Piazzolla and other Latin American composers. Aaron has performed major works for string quartet & guitar, voice and guitar & choir and guitar by such composers as Stravinsky, Ned Rorem, Astor Piazzolla & Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

 

 

 

 

 

 

He has received awards & grants from the American Composers Forum, D’Addario Foundation, Denver Classical Guitar Society, Mu Phi Epsilon, New England Conservatory, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Enamored with new music, Aaron has premiered over a dozen new solo or ensemble compositions, many of which are dedicated to him, by such composer as Daniel Pinkham, John McDonald, Lior Navok, José Elizondo, & Kurt Erickson.

 

A consummate educator and an advocate for listening to live classical performances, Mr. Larget-Caplan introduces Spanish & classical music & history into schools & other community settings through cultural programs & artist residencies.  His programs, 'The Spirit of Spain' & 'Latin Travels' teach language, poetry, history, and culture using real music. The New England Conservatory awarded him Outstanding Educator & Performer & he was the youngest solo roster artist with Young Audiences of Massachusetts.

 

Aaron graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he studied with David Leisner & Eliot Fisk.  His primary teacher is Dmitry Goryachev.  He also studied flamenco with Juanito Pascual. He has performed and studied at festivals in Italy, Spain and across the United States. He continues his studies of body physics & geometry & its relation & application to playing & teaching of the guitar with wife, healer, & muse, Catherine Larget-Caplan.

 

 

 

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Aaron Larget-Caplan teaches privately as well as the New School of Music in Cambridge. Part of his teaching curriculum includes focusing on comfort & ease of motion of playing, body geometry, sound production, note reading, flamenco techniques & music interpretation.

 

Non-guitar teaching experience includes music history & theory teaching in the classroom at Bay Path College, Northeastern University & the Fenn School.