Lewis Kaplan

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Lewis Kaplan is an American violinist. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey. He resides on the Upper West Side in New York City with his wife, Adria. He is a senior professor in violin and chamber music at the Juilliard School in New York.

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.

He is a founder of the Aeolian Chamber Players and a co-founder of the Bowdoin International Music Festival. He will be a juror for the 2007 Sendai International Music Competition.

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