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.
Education
She studied piano under Ilona Vincze-Kraus at Israel Academy of Music and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the Juilliard School while studing with Irwin Freundlich. She continued master classes under Dorothy Taubman and earned a Doctorate of Music from Juilliard in 1973, the first woman to receive that degree from that august institution.
Professional career
She began her teaching career at Philadelphia University of the Arts and began lecturing master classes at the Manhattan School of Music in 1987. Between 1989 and 1997 she taught at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.
In 1993 she began teaching at the Juilliard School and has been chairperson of the piano department since 1997. In 1998 she presented master classes at Israel's Tel Hai Festival. She was awarded the Susan W. Rose chair in 2000 and has been teaching at the Pre-College since 1993.
She has been an adjudicator at the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Texas, where in 2005 her student Joyce Yang won second prize. She continues to give master classes in Israel and the U.S., and has most recently been appointed Artistic Director of the Juilliard School's Pre-College division.
Awards and honors
She has won the prestigious 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 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.
References and external links
- Madigan, Tim (May 15, 2005). "Veda's children play on (free article preview)". Fort Worth Star-Telegram .
- The Juilliard School
- Ashkenazy, Vladimir. Collins Encyclopedia of Classical Music. Collins; new ed (2000) (ISBN 0-00-472390-2).