Aaron Larget-Caplan

Biography

Aaron Larget-Caplan is an international recording and touring guitarist, award winning curator, producer, publisher, and composer. A self-taught composer, Larget-Caplan’s compositional influences include John Cage, Toru Takemitsu, and the over 100 composers he has collaborated with.

He has premiered over 110 compositions, many written for his New Lullaby Project, and his groundbreaking arrangements and recording of the music of John Cage are published and recorded by Edition Peters and the UK label Stone Records. He has 10 critically acclaimed solo albums for Stone Records and Tiger Turn. His 2022 album honey cadence, featuring his own compositions earned over 2.5 million streams in its first year.

A two volumes anthology of scores written for his New Lullaby Project is published by the American Composers Alliance. Volume 1, Nights Transfigured won multiple Revere awards from the Music Publishers Association.

Larget-Caplan has received numerous awards including from the Société Académique Arts-Sciences-Lettres of Paris, France for his trailblazing work in music, and Musician in Residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada. Larget-Caplan is a frequent lecturer on writing for guitar, creating commissioning projects, and John Cage, Faculty appointments include the Boston Conservatory at Berklee School of Music and the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Before becoming a composer member of ACA, Larget-Caplan has aided the organization by way of curating and editing several collections of guitar solo music for ACA publication: Hushed: Sixteen 21st-Century Lullabies for Solo Guitar and Nights Transfigured: 15 Solos for Classical Guitar

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