Melvin Kaplan (August 29, 1929 – September 25, 2022)Melvin Ira Kaplan
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Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City. Established in 1905, the school trains about 850 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the most el ...

for 25 years. He was for many years a featured performer and lecturer at the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

. Kaplan is a founding member of both the New York Chamber Soloists and the Festival Winds, though he is perhaps best known as Artistic Director of the original

Vermont Mozart Festival The Vermont Mozart Festival is a series of indoor and outdoor concerts presented annually at sites throughout the state of Vermont. First held in 1974, the festival primarily focuses on the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In 2010 the original Ve ...

, which he cofounded in 1974 with William Metcalfe, a conductor and professor at the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is amon ...

. He received the Governor's Award for Extraordinary Contribution to Vermont in 1990 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Vermont Arts Council in 1998.

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* 1929 births 2022 deaths American classical oboists Male oboists Juilliard School faculty Place of birth missing {{US-music-bio-stubHe graduated from the High School of music and Art in June 1946