Jeffrey KahanePiano Gabriel KahanePiano
About This Performance
Father and son have both devoted their lives to music, and while their paths are distinct, both are at the top of their fields. Jeffrey Kahane has been a classical luminary for more than four decades. Gabriel Kahane has charted an equally successful course as a genre-crossing singer-songwriter. On the program is Gabriel’s two-piano arrangement of Heirloom, about which Jeffrey says, “There’s a very beautiful aspect of this piece that is both autobiographical and biographical, and it taps so deeply into all the different strands of shared family history.”
Program
GABRIEL KAHANE: Heirloom (written for his father)
Additional works for two pianos
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.