Yoheved Kaplinsky

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 of Irwin Freundlich. She continued her studies with Dorothy 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 was an adjudicator at prestigious international competitions, including 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 formerly served as the Susan Rose Chair in piano, as well as the Artistic Director of the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division.

For many years, she was a Professor of Piano in the Texas Christian University School of Music and was a member of the faculty at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

Awards and honors

She was a second-prize winner of the J.S. Bach International Competition in Washington, D.C., and has performed 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.

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