Amelia Stephanie Kaplan is a composer whose music reflects her diverse interests in historical, Jewish, and Indian Classical Music, as well as physics. She completed her A.B. at Princeton University, and her A.M. and Ph.D. in music composition at the University of Chicago. She has worked at the Milan Conservatory on a Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, received a diploma of merit from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and earned a diploma from the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau.
Kaplan’s music has been performed at contemporary music festivals and by renowned ensembles and musicians across the United States and in Europe. She has been supported with residencies by MacDowell, Ucross Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has received grants from The Indiana Arts Commission, Ball State University, Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Chicago, and ASCAP, and has been nominated three times for the American Society of Arts and Letters.
Kaplan has taught at Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Iowa, Roosevelt University, Columbia College, and the University of Chicago and has guest lectured at Boston University, University of Western Ontario, University of Northern Colorado, University of Northern Iowa, and the Conservatoire Angouleme in Angouleme, France. Currently, she is associate professor of composition at Ball State University.
