Yoheved "Veda" Kaplinsky (born March 23, 1947, in Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine [now [[Israel]]]) is a lecturer and professor of music at the Juilliard School. She heads the Pre-College department at Juilliard.
She studied piano under Ilona Vincze-Kraus at the Israel Academy of Music (now the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music) and earned her bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School as a student of Irwin Freundlich. She continued her studies with Dorothy Taubman.
She began her teaching career at Philadelphia University of the Arts and then taught at the Manhattan School of Music in 1987. Between 1989 and 1997 she taught at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.
In 1993, she began to teach at the Juilliard School. She became the chairperson of the Piano Division in 1997.
For many years, she was a professor of Piano in the Texas Christian University School of Music and was a member of the faculty at the Aspen Music Festival and School.[1]