Irina Kaplan
Piano, Peabody's Young Pianists
Irina Kaplan, now in her 20th year on the piano faculty, was trained in the famous tradition of piano playing at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia. She has won awards and competitions including the Baltimore Chamber Music Award and the Montpelier Recital Competition.
As an educator, Kaplan has performed and conducted masterclasses and workshops at Ohio State University, Florida State University, the University of Kansas, University of Georgia, Brigham Young University, the University of Miami, San Francisco State University, the University of Milan in Italy, and the University of Colima in Mexico, among others.
Her students have participated in numerous statewide competitions and have won competitions like the Maryland State Concerto Competition and Peabody's Part Recital and Honor Recital Competitions. Several of her students have acheived successful placements at prestigious music schools and universities across the country.
Kaplan is a founding member of the Poulenc Trio, an internationally recognized chamber music ensemble that has performed on major concert stages around the world and in 40 U.S. states.
In recent years, Kaplan has collaborated with such notable artists as Hilary Hahn and Anthony McGill, and has performed at festivals including the White Nights Festival in Russia, the Ravello, Amalfi Coast and Alba festivals in Italy, and the San Miguel de Allende Festival in Mexico.
Over the course of her career, Kaplan has championed the performance and promotion of new music, and with the Poulenc Trio has commissioned over twenty new compositions, including three triple concertos.
Kaplan's most recent recording, Poulenc Plays Poulenc is available on the Marquis label, and she has been featured numerous times in live performance on the nationally-syndicated radio program Performance Today.
