Artist Aaron Larget-Caplan Bio: A passionate and creative explorer of music of our time, guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan plays with “astounding technical proficiency and artistic delicacy” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). An international recording and touring artist, Aaron regularly performs in Europe, Russia, Asia and across the US. He has four critically acclaimed solo recording: Tracing a wheel on water (2006), New Lullaby (2010), The Legend of Hagoromo (2015), and the groundbreaking John. Cage. Guitar. (2018). In 2015 he became a Stone Records artists; the first guitarist and American featured on the British label. He is featured as a soloist and chamber music on Albany, Navona, and American Composers Alliance record labels as well.
Aaron’s artistic flare for programming has seen the premiere of over 80 compositions, and many of his own arrangements of music by Bach, Scarlatti, Hahn and numerous Spanish composers. His arrangements of John Cage are exclusively published by Edition Peters, and are the first sanctioned arrangements of John Cage for guitar.
A community leader, Aaron introduces audiences of all-ages to classical music with Bernstein-esque ease and a missionary zeal. Composer Thomas Schuttenhelm describes Aaron as “the ideal 21st century artist. More than just a guitarist, he is an ambassador of the instrument.”
Visit his website: www.ALCGuitar.com
CD: Drifting
Volume 3 of the New Lullaby Project.
Stone Records Limited and Six String Sound
The 3rd album dedicated to compositions written for the New Lullaby Project by 15 composer. Click on Bandcamp for CDs and digital downloads, as well as album and composer information.
COMPOSERS: Tim Pence, Anthony R. Green, Frank E. Warren, Ricardo Odriozola, Stefanie Lubkowski, Charles Turner, Jacob Mashak, Ian Wiese, Scott Scharf, John McDonald, Boris Rivchun, Michael J. Veloso, Francine Trester, Gerard Drozd, Martin Max Schreiner
CD: Nights Transfigured
Vol. 2 of the New Lullaby Project (2020)
Six String Sound
The 2nd album dedicated to compositions written for the New Lullaby Project by 14 composer. Click on Bandcamp for physical orders and digital downloads, as well as album and composer information. Shatzer, Castilla-Ávila, Read, Julien, Shende, Trester, Éon, Fletcher, Dalton, McMullin, Schuttenhelm, Boy, Spaneas, Oliver.
“From colourful sensitive phrasing to virtuosic execution of soothing new music textures, Aaron Larget-Caplan’s playing is exquisite. Highly recommended.” ~ This is Classical Guitar (Canada)
On my 2010 album New Lullaby, the first volume of the New Lullaby Project, I made a distinction between warm and dark lullabies. I organized the album to move loosely from warm to dark to silent, but in Nights Transfigured each possess soupçons of melan[1]choly, shadows of warmth, and inward contemplations, reflecting the times when they were created, between 2011-2020. They are lullabies of passage and being, longing and loneliness, marking time, memory, and yet these sonorous landscapes are also inhabited by warmth, hope, and peace. They are life. We have magical wordless sounds organized by humans as drops of ink on a page and played on a golden instrument of heaven in my arms that can transport us from one world to another and transfigure nights, when we only but listen. Lorca wrote that each moonlit night is identical to another, yet distinct. In other words: a lullaby is a lullaby, but each lullaby is its own. Dream well, Aaron Larget-Caplan www.ALCGuitar.com
Aaron Larget-Caplan has premiered over 80 compositions, founded the New Lulla[1]by Project and directs the trio ¡Con Fuego! Aaron’s groundbreaking John Cage ar[1]rangements and recording are issued by Edition Peters and Stone Records. He has five critically acclaimed solo albums and is on faculty at University of Massachusetts and formerly Boston Conservatory. He has received awards from Société Académique Arts-Sciences-Lettres of Paris, France, and the Banf Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada for his trailblazing work in music. All compositions were written for and pre miered by Aaron Larget-Caplan
CD: John. Cage. Guitar. A landmark recording ‘John. Cage. Guitar.’ is the first classical guitar recording dedicated to the music of John Cage. It features seven early and mid-career compositions, dating from 1933 through 1950 for solo guitar, violin and guitar, and prepared guitar duo. The music is playful, meditative, meandering, introspective, large, quiet, rambunctious, haunting, and regal. Lyricism of Satie and foreshadowing of minimalism and even rock are present on the album.
“An excellent introduction to those who want to approach Cage for the first time. Highly recommended.” ~ NeuGuitars (Italy)
“This disc, quite properly, knows no fear in its blend of delicacy, complexity and amiable simplicity.” ~ Music Web International (UK)
CD: The Legend of Hagoromo Comprising an intoxicating mixture of Japanese and American music, this fusion-recital is brilliantly conceived and performed by the young American virtuoso. The disc includes a number of première recordings, some written specifically for him, as well as the eponymous tour de force, The legend of Hagoromo – a modern masterpiece, presented here with stunning vitality. The cross-fertilisation happens both ways with composers from Japan and the Americas writing music inspired by each other’s cultures, including Toru Takemitsu’s breathtaking arrangements of Summertime and Somewhere over the rainbow. This is charismatic classical music at its finest – uncompromising, engaging and brilliant.
CD: Tracing a wheel on water Guitar solos of the last 100 years by nine composer from six countries, & with various compositional styles, from the energetic & twisted dance to the folk lullaby & romantic sounds of Latin America. – 3 world premier recordings by Daniel Pinkham, Lior Navok, & Kevin Siegfried. (The two works by Daniel Pinkham were his last for guitar before passing in 2007.)
CD: New Lullaby From the quiet and fragile, to the warm and beautiful, and the slightly haunting, the lullaby and the guitar are rediscovered by 13 award winning composers from across the United States for 14 enchanting ways to fall asleep.
New Lullaby is a beautiful, perceptive, and evocative performance that earns and deserves your rapt appreciation. Most of all, however, it felt to me like a courageous exploration of a mood or a state that is rarely identified, and these days all-too rarely enjoyed: attentive peacefulness. – Glenn Kurtz, author of Practicing, A Musician’s Return To Music
