Benjamin Kaplan (pianist)
Benjamin Kaplan (1929 – 2012) was an English pianist and piano teacher.[1] He was born in London, the son of Alf Kaplan, a dance band pianist who played with Oscar Rabin's band at the Hammersmith Palais. Kaplan studied at the Guildhall School of Music and took piano lessons from Franz Reizenstein for five years, and then took a further five years of lessons from Louis Kentner.[2] He made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1954.[3]
Kaplan became associated with the music of Arnold Bax and John Ireland. In 1954 he premiered Humphrey Searle's Concertante for piano, percussion and string orchestra. He came second in the 1961 Liszt Competition and performed regularly for BBC Radio between 1960 and 1978.[4] His many pupils - at Guildhall (1984-1992) and the Royal Academy of Music (2005-2008), with visits to New York and Japan - included Mark Anderson,[5] Kit Armstrong,[6] Nick van Bloss, Daniel Blumenthal, the Australian pianists Bradley Evans[7] and Lisa Moore, Alan D. Marks and Noriko Ogawa.[8]
His address in the 1960s was 64 Addison Way, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11.[9]
References
- ↑ 'In Memoriam', Tel-Hai International Piano Masterclasses
- ↑ Wilson Lyle. A Dictionary of Pianists (1985), p. 148
- ↑ David Wright. 'A Lost Generation of Pianists', Musicalis (2013)
- ↑ For instance, 'England's Pleasant Land', BBC Radio 3, 14 July, 1972
- ↑ Mark Anderson biography
- ↑ Kit Armstrong biography, Japan Arts
- ↑ Bradley Evans biography, AMEB
- ↑ 'Noriko Ogawa in conversation with Melanie Spanswick', 13 January, 2013
- ↑ Who's Who in Music (1969 edition), p. 168
External links
Benjamin Kaplan plays Liszt's Piano Sonata In B Minor, BBC Radio, September 1965
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