Aaron Larget-Caplan is a graduate of the New England Conservatory (NEC) and studied extensively with Russian master pedagogue Dmitry Goryachev, as well as David Leisner, Eliot Fisk, Peter Clemente and flamenco with Jonthan "Juanito" Pascual. Larget-Caplan is the founder of the New Lullaby Project, a contemporary music endeavor that commissions, performs and records solo works in the genre of a lullaby, and the Spanish classical music and flamenco dance ensemble ¡Con Fuego!.
Larget-Caplan has performed recitals and as a soloist and chamber musician in Italy, Spain and across the U.S., including at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Tabor Opera House and Jordan Hall. He has premiered more than 35 solo and chamber works by such composers as Daniel Pinkham, David Leisner, Scott Wheeler, Francine Trester, John McDonald, Kevin Siegfried and many more. His most recent solo recordings, Vientos (Albany Records) and New Lullaby (Six String Sound), have received accolades from Fanfare, Audiophile and The American Record Guide.
Larget-Caplan has given master classes at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Adams State College (Colorado), California State University at Bakersfield, University of Vermont and the Boston Classical Guitar Society. He was the youngest solo artist with Young Audiences of Massachusetts and he regularly performs artist residencies throughout New England. He has received grants and awards from the New England Foundation for the Arts, American Composers Forum, Denver Classical Guitar Society, D'Addario Foundation, Mu Phi Epsilon and the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC).
Larget-Caplan is currently on the guitar faculty at The Boston Conservatory and the New School of Music, and he has an active private studio in Boston.
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