“Mr. Larget-Caplan represents the ideal 21st century artist. More than just a guitarist, he is an ambassador of the instrument.” – Thomas Schuttenhelm, Director Network for New Music
Podcasts & TV/Online Inteviews
- Conducting Conversations with Mike Maino • May 15, 2023 • Listen Now
- All Things Six Strings with Rick Cox – God's Time, Nov. 12, 2022 • Listen Now
- Conducting Conversations with Mike Maino • August 21, 2022 • Listen Now
- Just One Question with Nicholas Morgan • June 16, 2022 • 9min • Spotify • YT
- All Things Six Strings with Rick Cox – honey cadence • May 18, 2022 • Listen Now
- Guitaromanie! Anniversary Show with Karl Wohlwend • May 12, 2022 • Listen Now
- Fret Not with Rosie Bennet • March 14, 2022 • Listen Now
- All Things Six Strings with Rick Cox • December 5, 2021 • Listen Now
- All Things Legal with Eric Ruben • October 25, 2021 • Listen Now
- Guitaromanie! with Karl Wohlwend • October 21, 2021 • Listen Now
- Guitar Around The World with Kevin Collins • July 13, 2021 • Listen Now
- Contemporary Guitar Blog with Trevor Babb • June 27, 2021 • Listen Now (YT)
- What Do You Want To Do with Leonard Caplan • June 12, 2021 • Listen Now (YT)
- Guitar Around The World with Kevin Collins • June 8, 2021 • Listen Now
- Conducting Conversations with Mike Maino • June 6, 2021 • Listen Now
- All Things Cage Aaron Interviews Laura Kuhn #2, Director of the John Cage Trust • May 8, 2021 • Listen Now
- All Things Cage Aaron Interviews Laura Kuhn #1, John Cage Trust • March 13, 2021 • Listen Now
- Just One Question with Nicholas Morgan • February 12, 2021 • 15min • Watch
- All Things Cage with Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust • January 9, 2021 • Listen Now
- Conducting Conversations with Mike Maino • Nov. 22, 2020 • Listen Now
- The Bradley Jay Show, Interview-Performance • Sep. 15, 2020 • Youtube
- The Bradley Jay Show, Interview-Performance • July 22, 2020 • Youtube
- The Bradley Jay Show, Interview-Performance • June 1, 2020 • Youtube
- Conducting Conversations with Mike Maino • March 23, 2020 • Listen Now
- The Tactical Guitarist with Jesse McCann • Nov. 18, 2019 • Listen Now
- More Art Than Science with Daniel Shugrue • Nov. 1, 2019 • 1hr 22min • Listen Now
- WOMR Radio Café Classicale with Felice Coral • Aaron & baritone Matthew Hoch • September 23, 2019 • 40:47 • Listen Now
- BNN News with Chris Lovett • Local Artist at French Cultural Center • September 20, 2019 (youtube) • 7:30 • Listen Now
- Conducting Conversations with Mike Maino • September 15, 2019 • Listen Now
- Performing Arts Review with Daniel Kepl • August 19, 2019
(youtube)
38min • Listen Now - BNN News with Chris Lovett • "Now Musique" Debut • April 12,
2019
12min • Listen Now - Dream Farm Radio • Aaron & Peter Janson • February 18,
2018
58min • Listen Now - BNN News with Chris Lovett • A Revealing Take on John Cage • Nov. 19, 2018 (youtube) 9min • Listen Now
- Off the Podium Interview w/ Tigran Arakelyan (youtube) •
July 2017
48min • Listen Now - Classical Guitar Insider with Bret Williams, Episode 87 •
November 9, 2016
1hr 26min • Listen Now - BNN News with Chris Lovett • Boston Guitar Virtuoso Links Worlds of Music • November 29, 2016 (youtube) 8min • Listen Now
- BNN News with Chris Lovett • Dorchester Guitarist Spans Musical Frontiers • Feb 22, 2016 (youtube) 7:30min • Listen Now
- Conducting Conversations with Mike Maino • June 5, 2016
48min • Listen Now
Press Photos
High Resolution photos for Press & Media. Photos 1-12 taken by Paula Morin
High Resolution photos for Press & Media.
For additional photos, visit Aaron's Facebook Page.
Articles, Interviews & Reviews
CONCERT REVIEW - Heretic micro-opera by Richard Cameron-Wolfe, The Arts Fuse
January 2024
REVIEW: Spanish Candy - Take Effect Reviews
December 2023
REVIEW: Best of 2023 - God's Time, The Arts Fuse
December 2023
REVIEWS: Spanish Candy, John. Cage. Guitar., Bach: God's Time, JWR Review, Canada
September 2023
REVIEW: God's Time, Music of J.S. Bach on Guitar, Take Effect Reviews
July 2023
REVIEW: honey cadence, Take Effect Reviews
July 2023
REVIEW: Drifting, Vol. 3 of the New Lullaby Project, Take Effect Reviews
July 2023
INTERVIEW, God's Time – Music of J.S. Bach, Ken Metzler, Fanare
January 2022
REVIEW, God's Time – 5 Stars, A Lovely Disc, Collin Clarke, Fanfare
January 2022
Larget-Caplan Puts a new spin on an old instrument at Pomona performance, The Student Life, Pomona College, November, 2022
Larget-Caplan's New Album Explores Christmas Music, Dorchester Reporter
December 22, 2021
REVIEW: Drifting, Fanfare
November/December 2021
REVIEW: Nights Transfigured, Fanfare
November/December 2021
REVIEW: New Lullaby, Music Web International
October 25, 2021
REVIEW: Nights Transfigured, This is Classical Guitar
January 29, 2021
Seeking Out Lullabies, Dorchester Reporter
October, 22, 2020
Boston's
Larget-Caplan Picked in Paris
August 2019
The
Cross-Eyed Pianist (UK), Meet the Artist
January 2019
NeuGuitars
(Italy), Interview
with Aaron Larget-Caplan,
December 2018
Boston
Voyager, Meet
Aaron Larget-Caplan
May 2018
Off the
Podium Interview w/ Tigran Arakelyan (free & 48min)
July 2017
Classical Guitar Insider Podcast (free)
November 2016
Conducting
Conversations WCRI
Spring 2016
Classical
Guitar Alive (Aaron starts at 12min)
March 2016
Guitar
Salon Player Spotlight
Spring 2015 - Guitar Salon International
Have
Guitar, Will Travel - To Russia With Love
Winter 2015 – Mu Phi Epsilon (ΜΦΕ) by Aaron
Fanfare
– On The Trail with Aaron Larget-Caplan, Lullaby Hunter
Winter 2011 - Fanfare
Building
a Career through Talent and Savvy
Winter 2011 - Mu Phi Epsilon (ΜΦΕ)
Performance Review Quotes (click on links for full reviews):
“A riveting artist”
~ G. Acosta, The Washington Post
"A bold and energetic presence underscored his talents as a musician and actor."
~ A. Keebaugh, The Arts Fuse for Heretic, a micro-opera by Richard Cameron-Wofle
“Astounding technical proficiency and artistic delicacy. He performed with elegant precision, stunning ornamentation and fine voicing; Stunningly executed”
~ J. Wanée, Boston
Musical Intelligencer
“Effortless and hypnotic tone colors."
~ FlamencoBuzz.com
“He’s doing everything right — and playing very well.”
~ S. Miron, Boston
Musical Intelligencer
“Larget-Caplan gave honor to the music, blending the guitar as
though this was the intention of Cage himself.”
~
F.E. Warren, Boston Musical Intelligencer
“Larget-Caplan’s arrangement of Bach’s Fugue in D Minor BWV 961
was masterful and an impressive presentation of his virtuosity
in a beautifully running bass line executed with poise and
precision.”
~ J. Wanée, Boston Musical Intelligencer
“Larget-Caplan’s playing came through exuberantly, bringing
forth a Hemingway-in-Spain ardor and ambiance to the hall”
~ A. Turpin, The Armenian Weekly
“The magnificent musical talent of Aaron Larget-Caplan is
indeed a gift for the senses”
~ D. Beauvais, Dreamvisions 7 Radio Network
“The artist infused his playing with such subtle
interpretations as to make “your heart stop." His technique and interpretation are superb”
~ Upham’s Corner News
“And what a treat to hear Aaron, as he showed us how virtuoso
guitar can relate to other chamber instruments with great
sensitivity.”
~ K. Dreier, Director J.K. Record Conservation Fund
“[Aaron] impressed the audience with his rapidly changing
chords and trill movements”
~ Alison Silver, The Brown Daily Herald
“A very fine young artist who is brilliant in creating new
approaches and initiatives in performing and teaching classical
guitar”
~ L. Leibman, Director of the Educational Bridge Project
“Larget-Caplan stretched the limits of the sound of the guitar, experimenting with other playing
positions most others do not tend to use: sul tasto, sul ponticello, finger vs. nail, etc. It’s
refreshing to hear and very rewarding.”
~ I. Wiese, Boston Musical Intelligencer
“Enthusiasm and virtuosity”
~ R. Schulslaper, Fanfare
Recording Review Quotes
“Spanish Candy solidifies Larget-Caplan as one of today’s most luminous guitarists.”
~ Take Effect Reviews
"Each composer approaches the lullaby [on Nights Transfigured] in a new creative way allowing the listener to engage with the album as a conceptual whole. 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)
"John. Cage. Guitar. is an excellent introduction to those who want to approach [Cage] for the first time. Highly recommended.” ~ NeuGuitars (Italy)
" John. Cage. Guitar., quite properly, knows no fear in its blend of delicacy, complexity and amiable simplicity."~ Music Web International
Aaron Larget-Caplan is fast becoming perhaps the greatest guitar advocate for the music of John
Cage.
~ Classical Guitar Magazine
"To write that [Larget-Caplan] has something to boast about would be to say too little, the
guitarist is not afraid of any tempo, with each increasingly spectacular fragment coming through
not only with lightness, but with wildness".
~ Six Strings of the World (Poland)
"[The Legend of Hagoromo] is eclectic and endlessly rewarding release.”
~ Classical Guitar
"The Legend of Hagoromo combines a conceptually strong program with virtuosic and sensitive
performances all-around...a focused project with new music, artistic creativity, and vision.
Highly recommended."
~ This is Classical Guitar
"The interpretation is refined, every phrase flattering, every sound consciously derived. This
artist approaches the played pieces with enormous respect, trying above all to reveal the idea of
the composers...A delicious and poetic interpretation."
~ Six Strings of the World (Poland), Legend of Hagoromo
"Aaron is a performer with all the skill and energy required to deliver a truly remarkable contemporary work." ~ Classical Guitar Magazine, Legend of Hagoromo
"This is not some godawful Classics-for-Baby CD" ~Fanfare, New Lullaby
“Stunningly played. Aaron is a fine player, with a keen ear for new music”
~ B. Rayfield, Fanfare, New Lullaby
“A Significant Recording” ~ S. Marsh, Classical Guitar Magazine UK, New Lullaby
“Well played and sensitive” ~ K. Keaton, American Record Guide, New Lullaby
“Discernment and sensitive playing.” ~ J.V. Serinus, Audiophile, New Lullaby
“Catches every nuance of the music.” ~J. Marchant, Fanfare, New Lullaby
“An expressive touch, warmth and clarity…Wonderful pacing and mature handling of space.”
~
B. Werner, ClassicalGuitarCanada.com, New Lullaby
“Performed with music insight and fluent technical aplomb.”
~ S. Kloss, Upon Listening, The Triangle, New Lullaby
Publications Review Quotes
“The release of such works is very important for the development of the modern guitar
repertoire. The transcription of Larget-Caplan has ennobled our instrument.”
~ Six Strings of the World (Poland) on ‘Six Melodies’ by John Cage
"I would strongly advocate these [Cage ] compositions to be performed by young guitarists
before they start working on any other contemporary composers."
~ Soundboard, Guitar Foundation of America, U. Dojcinović
"A great arrangement"
~ This is Classical Guitar on ‘Six Melodies’ by John Cage
“I love this! A wonderful edition and excellent contribution to the guitar repertoire.”
~ This is Classical Guitar, on ‘Piano Music Arranged for Guitar’
“This masterful grouping is a must-have book, an important addition to any serious guitarist’s
collection.”
~ J. Sequeira, Upon Listening, The Triangle of Mu Phi Epsilon on ‘Piano Music
Arranged for Guitar’
Electronic Press Kit
Download Aaron's Press Sheet (PDF)
Biography
– Short
Biography
– Long
Press Quotes (PDF)
Programs – solo and with dance (PDF)
Video playlists:
Solo
John
Cage Guitar
J.S.
Bach
New
Lullaby
¡Con
Fuego!
Chamber Music
Interviews