About Aaron

“I’m convinced that your enthusiasm and virtuosity will entice listeners both old and young to experience the magic of the concert hall and your performance for themselves.” – Fanfare

G. Acosta of the Washington Post writes that he “is a unique talent not to be missed.” Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan is that rare musician that can deliver both virtuosic fireworks and poetic reflection, often integrated into a single interpretation.

Born in Oklahoma and raised in Colorado, Aaron began playing classical guitar at age 16 and gave his debut at the Tabor Opera House soon after. Since then he founded the New Lullaby Project and Greater Boston House Concerts, premiered over three-dozen solo compositions, founded ¡Con Fuego! – a classical Spanish music and flamenco dance ensemble, began workshops on Artist Entrepreneurship, and made his concerto debut with Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez.

The American composer Ned Rorem called his 2006 debut CD, Tracing a wheel on water, "Musical, affecting and skilled”. With Aaron’s 2010 solo CD, New Lullaby, Fanfare Magazine wrote, “something new has been attempted here…This is not some godawful Classics-for-Baby CD, and that his playing catches every nuance of the music”, and Audiophile awarded New Lullaby 4 out of 5 stars. Aaron is the featured soloist on Albany Records "Vientos – Music of Hayg Boyadjian" (2010), which Fanfare wrote was “Stunningly performed by Aaron ”. Aaron is also featured on the 2011 CD "Classic American Songs" with baritone Donald Wilkinson.

A consummate chamber musician, Aaron has performed major works with string quartet, voice, cello, flute, and choir by such composers as Stravinsky, Rorem, Ravi Shankar, Astor Piazzolla and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Collaborators include flutist Orlando Cela (The Diavolo Duo), cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer, cornetist Geoffrey Shamu, and pianists Kai-Ching Chang, John Thomas & Sara Takagi.

In ¡Con Fuego! Aaron performs with international flamenco dancers, La Conja and Gabriela Granados. Past performances include the Waltham Symphony Orchestra, KRZA Radio, and with the Interntional Festival of Arts & Ideas and Springstep.

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 for 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). He has performed and studied at festivals in Italy, Spain, Canada, and the United States.

An accomplished educator and advocate for listening to live classical performances, Mr. Larget-Caplan regularly performs and gives performance-lectures in non-traditional settings introducing classical, Spanish, Latin American and contemporary music, history into schools, lecture halls, and other community settings through enrichment programs and artist residencies. His programs, The Spirit of Spain, Latin Travels and New Lullabies & Dances, share the unique qualities of language, poetry, history, and culture through music. As a New England Touring Artist, he conducted a 5-day residency in northern New Hampshire, where he performed 13 programs in 9 schools, gave three workshops and three recitals, including a New Lullaby and Dances Kids Concerts in Littleton, New Hampshire where he performed 12 contemporary works from his New Lullaby Project for kids as young as a few months in pajamas with milk and cookies. A young audience member and new lover of classical music called it “A total blast!”

He is on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory and has an active private studio in Boston. Aaron is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he studied with David Leisner and Eliot Fisk. He studied flamenco privately with Juanito Pascual. Following the conservatory he studied intensively for seven years with Russian master pedagogue Dmitry Goryachev. He has participated in master classes with Leo Brouwer, Sharon Isbin, David Tanenbaum, Ricardo Cobo, Paul Galbraith, Jad Azkoul, and Jason Vieux.

Aaron also teaches and studies Cathar Yoga and Healing with his wife, healer, and muse, Catherine Larget-Caplan. In his spare time he enjoys espresso, visiting organic farms and searching out natural hot springs.

“Aaron Larget-Caplan is a riveting artist whose musical styling begs immediate attention. His classical guitar performance was a treasure...”
-G. Acosta, The Washington Post