About Aaron

“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

With performances in Spain, Italy, and on both US coasts as a soloist and chamber musician, Aaron Larget-Caplan rides the razor's edge of the guitar. He is a unique performer and communicator, who is able to link the new and old, and the difficult and not in music and other art forms.  Born in Oklahoma and raised in Colorado, Aaron made his debut at the Tabor Opera House at 17 years of age. The 2009-2010 season saw his orchestral debut in Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, four new lullaby world premieres, radio and television performance and the release of his second solo CD "New Lullaby". 

In 2006 Aaron released, Tracing a wheel on water , which the great American composer Ned Rorem called "Musical, affecting and skilled." (Click Here for reviews). That year he also founded the Spanish classical music and flamenco dance group ¡Con Fuego! In 2007 Aaron began the New Lullaby Project, a multi-compositonal endeavor that collects new lullabies from composers throughout the worldfor guitar solo. A CD, New Lullaby featuring 14 these works is being released in May 2010.

As a chamber musician, Aaron has performed many of the centuries great ensemble works with guitar, including works by Stravinsky, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Rorem, and Piazzolla.

Aaron has received awards and grants from the American Composers Forum, D’Addario Foundation, Denver Classical Guitar Society, music fraternity Mu Phi Epsilon, New England Conservatory, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.  He has performed and studied at festivals in Italy, Spain and across the United States.

Since 1998 Aaron has brought the creative adventures of listening to classical music to people of all ages and musical experienes through arts enrichment programs. With charisma and great music, Aaron's programs are eductional, entertaining, and a great way to introduce classical music from Spain and Latin America.

A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Aaron teachers include David Leisner, Eliot Fisk, Dmitry Goryachev, and flamenco with Juanito Pascual. He continues his studies of body physics and sacred geometry and its relation and application to playing and teaching of the guitar with wife, healer, and muse, Catherine Larget-Caplan.