Mark Kaplan (musician)
Mark Kaplan (born 30 December 1953, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American violinist who studied at the Juilliard School under Dorothy DeLay. He is currently a professor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. Before teaching at Indiana, Mr. Kaplan taught at UCLA in California.[1]
Mark Kaplan has performed in all the principal cities of Europe, including London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Zürich, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Milan, as well as the Far East and Australia. In the United States he has played with nearly every major orchestra, including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., as well as Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Houston Symphony. In Australia, Mark appeared for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, playing with the Queensland Orchestra in Brisbane, in 2009.
Mark Kaplan plays a violin made by Antonio Stradivari in 1685, which is named "The Marquis"[2] after the Marchese Spinola, whose family owned the violin for several generations.
Notes
- ↑ "Mark Kaplan bio page at Indiana University".
- ↑ Spinola in the Cozio Archive at tarisio.com
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