Lisa Kaplan, piano, has performed across the United States as both soloist and chamber musician. As a founding member of eighth blackbird she has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Naumburg award. Ms. Kaplan holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College, the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati and Northwestern University. An avid performer of contemporary repertoire, Ms. Kaplan has been featured as soloist with orchestras in Ohio, Arkansas and Texas and has collaborated with such artists as Ida Kavafian, Lucy Shelton, Tony Arnold and the Pacifica string quartet. Ms. Kaplan has also performed in the greater Chicago area with the new music groups Fulcrum Point and Present Music. Her principal teachers include Burton Hatheway, Sanford Margolis, and Ursula Oppens.

Ms. Kaplan, a native of Detroit, Michigan, grew up in Connecticut. In addition to her love of music and the arts, she is an aspiring photographer and enjoys cooking and eating fine food. She also enjoys adventuring with her family. Ms. Kaplan has climbed to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, braved the Australian outback, and survived encounters with grizzly bears in the Brooks Range of Alaska. Her next adventure will be hiking the Inca trail to Machu Picchu.

Lisa is featured in Bruce Pollock's book:
Working Musicians