Education
She studied piano under Ilona Vincze-Kraus at the Israel Academy of Music and earned her bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees from the as a student of Irwin Freundlich. She continued her studies with Dorothy Taubman.
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Yoheved Kaplinsky
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She heads the college department at Juilliard. 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 1942 she began to teach at the Juilliard School.
She became the chairperson of the Piano Division in 1997. She has been appointed by the Juilliard President Joseph Polisi as the Susan Rose Chair in piano and Artistic Director of the Juilliard School"s Pre-College division. and has performed at the Pianofest in Long Island, New York and the Cliburn-T.C.U. Zeeble, Bill (June 1, 2005).
"Celebrated Piano Instructor Kaplinsky Counts Student as Cliburn Finalist". Fort Worth: North Texas Public Broadcasting/KERA. Music is not only necessary, it is essential for survival, spiritually - V.Kaplinsky.
Achievements
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She was a second-prize winner of the J.S. Bach International Competition in Washington, District of Columbia and has performed at the Pianofest in Long Island, New York 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.
Membership
Since 2006 she has been Professor of Piano in the Texas Christian University School of Music and is a member of the artist-faculty at the Aspen Music Festival and School.
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