Aaron Larget-Caplan
Education and Training
BM, New England Conservatory Private study with Dmitry Goryachev, pianist Seymour Bernstein
Awards and Recognition
Hall of Fame for the Arts & Humanities of Cherry Creek, Englewood, Colorado
Artist Residency for the John Cage Trust, Bard College
Boston Opportunity Fund Grant Award, Creating Art for Boston, Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture
Revere Award from the Music Publishers Association of the US, Bacchanale by John Cage arranged for two prepared guitars, published by Edition Peters • Music Notesetting (2nd)
Massachusetts Cultural Council – Cultural Sector Grants for Organizations for Now Musique
Opportunity Grant, Boston Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture - Now Musique
Community Music Residency for the Kirkland Arts Center, Clinton, NY
Revere Awards (3x), Music Publishers Association of the US, American Composers Alliance
Société Académique Arts-Sciences-Lettres, Medal, Paris, France
Provost’s Book & Major Composition Honor, University of Massachusetts Boston
I.D. LOTT, Identifying Future Leaders of Today and Tomorrow Community Award, Dorchester
Bettylou Scandling Hubin Scholarship for World Music, Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation
Professional Development Grant, Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation
Best Performance of 2024, Heretic at Salem State University – The Arts Fuse
Best Album 2024 'God's Time: Music of J.S. Bach for Guitar' – The Arts Fuse
Aaron Larget-Caplan
Division: Expanded Education
Department: Faculty, Strings
Instrument: Guitar
“Aaron Larget-Caplan is a riveting artist,” writes the Washington Post, a "master guitarist and master arranger," says Fanfare, and the Boston Musical Intelligencer says he performs with “astounding technical proficiency and artistic delicacy.” Mr. Larget-Caplan is a composer, international recording and touring guitarist, award winning curator, producer, and publisher.
“Aaron Larget-Caplan is a riveting artist” (Washington Post), “master guitarist and master arranger” (Fanfare), and he performs with “astounding technical proficiency and artistic delicacy” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). Mr. Larget-Caplan is a composer, international recording and touring guitarist, award winning curator, published poet, producer, and educator.
Larget-Caplan has twelve acclaimed album, recent ones include Guitar America 250 (2026), Spanish Gems (2024), Spanish Candy (2023), his own compositions on honey cadence (2022), an all-Bach album God’s Time (2022), three volumes for his contemporary music endeavor the New Lullaby Project: New Lullaby (2010), Nights Transfigured (2020), Hushed (2021), the first guitar album sanctioned by the John Caget Trust: John. Cage. Guitar. (2018), and the Japanese themed The legend of Hagoromo (2016). The albums have earned critical praise and 14-million streams since 2021. Larget-Caplan has received numerous awards for his trailblazing work in music including from the Société Académique Arts-Sciences-Lettres of Paris, France, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the professional music fraternity Mu Phi Epsilon.
A lover of new, he has premiered over 120 solo and chamber compositions by more than 100 composers from 13 countries. He has written and arranged 85 compositions including for guitar and choir, strings, and solos for piano and guitar. Edition Peters publishes his John Cage and Alan Hovhaness arrangements, and the American Composers Alliance his original compositions and the award-winning New Lullaby anthologies.
Larget-Caplan is the director of the Spanish music and dance ensemble ¡Con Fuego!, the New Lullaby Project, and the performance and educational endeavor Now Musique, the latter is fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas.
Currently on faculty at the New England Conservatory, past appointments include the Boston Conservatory at Berklee School of Music and the University of Massachusetts Boston. His teachers and mentors include David Leisner, Eliot Fisk, Dmitry Goryachev, and pianists Seymour Bernstein and Stephen Drury. Born in Oklahoma, raised in Colorado, Aaron lives in Boston with his wife, healer, and muse, Catherine. He likes espresso.
Prelude No. 1 in C Major, WTC 1, BWV 846 by J.S. Bach Arranged and Performed by Aaron Larget-Caplan. Featured on the 2022 album 'God's Time – Music of J.S. on Guitar'
Curriculum Vitae
BM, New England Conservatory Private study with Dmitry Goryachev, pianist Seymour Bernstein
- Hall of Fame for the Arts & Humanities of Cherry Creek, Englewood, Colorado
- Artist Residency for the John Cage Trust, Bard College
- Boston Opportunity Fund Grant Award, Creating Art for Boston, Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture
- Revere Award from the Music Publishers Association of the US, Bacchanale by John Cage arranged for two prepared guitars, published by Edition Peters • Music Notesetting (2nd)
- Massachusetts Cultural Council – Cultural Sector Grants for Organizations for Now Musique
- Opportunity Grant, Boston Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture - Now Musique
- Community Music Residency for the Kirkland Arts Center, Clinton, NY
- Revere Awards (3x), Music Publishers Association of the US, American Composers Alliance
- Société Académique Arts-Sciences-Lettres, Medal, Paris, France
- Provost’s Book & Major Composition Honor, University of Massachusetts Boston
- I.D. LOTT, Identifying Future Leaders of Today and Tomorrow Community Award, Dorchester
- Bettylou Scandling Hubin Scholarship for World Music, Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation
- Professional Development Grant, Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation
- Best Performance of 2024, Heretic at Salem State University – The Arts Fuse
- Best Album 2024 'God's Time: Music of J.S. Bach for Guitar' – The Arts Fuse
