Mark Kaplan

Mark Kaplan (born 30 December 1953, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American violinist, currently a professor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. Before teaching at Indiana, Kaplan taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Biography Kaplan studied at the Juilliard School under Dorothy DeLay.

He taught at UCLA, before taking up a his post as professor of violin at Jacobs School of Music in 2005. alongside a Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Trio recording of Fred Lerdahl’s "Times 3". In 2014 was released (also for Bridge) of a CD with new American Piano Trios, joining a 2011 recording of Brahms and Smetana Trios. Other recent recordings include concerti of Berg and Stravinsky, the Lalo Symphonie Espagnole and the Concierto Espagnol of Joan Manen, all under the baton of Lawrence Foster, as well as Lewis Spratlan’s Concertino and the tone poem, Le Ménétrier, by Max d’Ollone. Kaplan's discography also includes the Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2 and Dohnanyi Violin Concerto No. 2, violin concerti of Paganini, Wieniawski and Viotti; the Brahms Double Concerto; Spanish Dances of Sarasate; various works of Bartók including the Solo Sonata; violin and piano sonatas of Schumann with Anton Kuerti; and trios of Brahms, Debussy, Dvorak, Fauré, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Smetana and Tchaikowsky. The Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio's recording, on Arabesque Records, of Tchaikovsky and Smetana trios, received an INDIE Award for Best Classical Album by an Ensemble.

Personal life Kaplan plays a violin made by Antonio Stradivari in 1685, named "The Marquis" after the Marchese Spinola, whose family owned the violin for several generations. Both of his sons are also musicians: Edwin Kaplan is a member of the Tesla Quartet, and David Kaplan is a piano soloist and faculty member at UCLA.