Jeffrey KahanePiano Gabriel KahanePiano
About This Performance
Father and son join forces for a singular recital in celebration of the release of Heirloom, a piano concerto composed by Gabriel Kahane for his father, Jeffrey. Their program surveys both folk and concert music, as well as pieces by the younger Kahane. At the center of the program is a contemporary take on the “dueling pianos” tradition, alternating solo piano works (performed by Jeffrey) with songs for piano and voice (written and performed by Gabriel).
The evening will culminate in the World Premiere of a two-piano transcription of the rollicking, joyous finale from Heirloom.
Program
GABRIEL KAHANE: World Premiere of a two-piano arrangement of the finale of Heirloom, plus additional works to be announced from the stage.
Artist Information
Performer Biographies
Celebrated for his “imagination, devotion and supreme musicianship” (Los Angeles Times), Jeffrey Kahane is now in the fifth decade of an expansive and eclectic musical career. As a pianist, conductor and scholar, his career highlights run the gamut from concertos with the New York Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony, to recitals with Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua Bell, European tours at the podium of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, lecture/performances of Beethoven symphonies informed by his immersion in ancient literature, and collaborations with the Emerson, Miró, Dover, Attacca and Calidore String Quartets.
Hailed as “one of the finest songwriters of the day” by The New Yorker, Gabriel Kahane is a musician and storyteller whose work spans the theater, club, and concert hall. Gabriel’s discography includes five LPs as a singer-songwriter; The Fiction Issue, an album of chamber music with string quartet Brooklyn Rider, as well as emergency shelter intake form, an oratorio exploring economic inequality through the lens of housing insecurity.