"Taking a chamber music class at Juilliard with Lewis Kaplan was wonderful."

Yo-Yo Ma /

Shortly after graduating from The Juilliard School with bachelors and masters degrees in violin and conducting, Lewis Kaplan was appointed to the violin and chamber music faculties, thus beginning a forty year association with this prestigious conservatory.

Training at The Juilliard School is among the finest in the world given its extraordinary faculty, the remarkable level of the students, as well as its central location in New York City at Lincoln Center.

Lewis Kaplan has devoted much of his artistic life to guiding the lives of young artists, helping them to develop a musical point of view and to feel more secure technically as well. His students, many performing worldwide, have been helped by the musical depth he has brought to their playing. Early in his career, he taught at the Juilliard School as an associate to his former mentor, Ivan Galamian, for five years until Mr. Galamian's death in 1981. He taught there as well with the renowned violinist, Szymon Goldberg. Prior to that, he taught in association with Dorothy DeLay.

Lewis Kaplan's chamber and violin students have included Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Pinchas Zukerman, Kyung-Wha Chung, Pamela Frank and Cho-Liang Lin.

Each year Lewis Kaplan presents at Juilliard in lecture/performance the Bach Ciaccona discussing its form, mystery and intrinsic messages.