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Jeffrey Kahane

December 01, 2023

Jeffrey Alan Kahane (born September 12, 1956) is an American classical concert pianist and conductor. He was music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for 20 years, the longest of any music director in the orchestra's history. He is the music director of the Sarasota Music Festival, a program of the Sarasota Orchestra, and a professor of keyboard studies (Piano) at the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, California

Jeffrey Kahane
Born
Jeffrey Alan Kahane

Los Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationSan Francisco Conservatory of Music (BM)
University of Colorado Boulder (MA)
Children2, including Gabriel

Early life and education edit

Kahane grew up in West Los Angeles, and began studying piano at age five, and at age 10 began learning to play the guitar. For the next few years, he split his time between his piano studies and playing folk and rock music on the guitar. At age 14, he was accepted as a scholarship pupil by the Polish-born pianist Jakob Gimpel. "I was completely transformed by the contact with him", Kahane said. "There was something that I got from Brahms and Beethoven and Bach that I couldn't live without. And I wanted to make a contribution to keeping it vital and alive."[1][2]

After his sophomore year of high school, Kahane entered the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He studied piano and conducting, and graduated in 1977. While in San Francisco, he played keyboard instruments in the San Francisco Symphony, explored jazz, and played in the pit for a touring Broadway musical.[2][3] Kahane later earned a Master of Arts degree in classics from the University of Colorado Boulder.[4]

Career edit

At the age of 24, Kahane entered the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1981 and won fourth place. Kahane received additional exposure because PBS broadcast the competition's finals round. Two years later, he won the Grand Prize in the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Israel.[1][3]

Kahane made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1983 at an Arthur Rubinstein Tribute Concert, and his London debut in 1985. In 1983 he won an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and in 1987 the first Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award.

He has made numerous solo appearances in recital and with major orchestras around the world, including New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. In addition, he has become a favored recital accompanist for Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, Joshua Bell, and Thomas Quasthoff, and he often appears with leading chamber ensembles such as the Emerson String Quartet.[3][5]

In the summer of 2003 Kahane performed all five Beethoven piano concertos with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra over two consecutive nights at the Hollywood Bowl. He repeated the cycle at Ravinia with the Chicago Symphony in the summer of 2004.

During the 2005–2006 concert season, he performed all 23 of the Mozart piano concertos as part of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's celebration of the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth.[3][5]

Kahane made his conducting debut at the Oregon Bach Festival in 1988, conducting a Mozart concerto from the keyboard. He has often returned to the festival as both pianist and conductor.[5]

In 1991, Kahane co-founded the Gardner Chamber Orchestra at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, an ensemble of outstanding students and recent graduates of the major schools of music in the Boston area. He served as artistic director and conductor from 1991 to 1995.

Santa Rosa Symphony edit

In 1995, Kahane became music director of the Santa Rosa Symphony. He held the post until the end of the 2005–06 season, after which he was given the title of conductor laureate.[5]

Under Kahane's leadership, the subscriber base increased almost twofold and artistic standards improved. "My tenure with the Santa Rosa Symphony has been the most fulfilling and exciting years of my musical life", Kahane said. "As I move forward, I know that nothing I ever do will mean more to me than the privilege of working with these amazing and dedicated musicians and making music with them for this exceptionally passionate and committed audience."[6]

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra edit

Kahane has been music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 1997, succeeding Iona Brown.[7] In 2008, his contract was extended through the 2011–12 season.[8]

According to critic David Mermelstein:

Kahane's taste in new music doesn't appeal to everyone. Some critics find his idea of "modern" too conservative, and LACO's older subscribers have been known to grumble about even "safe" choices. Of course, pleasing everyone all the time isn't music making; it's pandering. On balance, Kahane does a laudable job of giving concert goers a healthy mix of the familiar and the slightly daring. His ability to land major soloists, however, is beyond reproach. Such celebrated performers as Hilary Hahn, Thomas Quasthoff, Lang Lang, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, and Daniel Hope have appeared with LACO in recent years, and next season promises first appearances by Cho-Liang Lin and Peter Serkin. But Kahane's achievement at LACO has nothing to do with enriching the musical canon or lassoing big names. It is instead the story of a modest musician who through patience and perhaps a little guile restored dignity to a group of dispirited players. He made them feel their music making mattered, and now others do, too. "We're certainly not the only place in America where musicians are happy", says the conductor, "but the combination of that attitude with this level of playing is very rare."[9]

In April 2014, Kahane announced that he would step down after the 2016-17 season, after which will officially assume the title of Music Director Laureate.. His twenty-year-long tenure will be the longest of any Music Director in the orchestra's history[10]

Colorado Symphony edit

Kahane became music director of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra in 2005. His initial contract was for three years.[11] In 2008, Kahane extended his Colorado Symphony contract through 2012. However, in July 2008, Kahane announced his resignation from the orchestra at the end of the 2009–10 season. Kahane said that severe hypertension in 2007, which caused him to cancel several weeks of concerts in both Colorado and Los Angeles, led to his decision to concentrate more on his solo piano career:

I had a real scare. That forced me to really stop and take a look at my life and say, "You know what? You can't do everything." I don't think I underestimated the job. I think I overestimated myself, not in my abilities but just being in a body and turning 50."[12]

According to The Denver Post, Kahane's tenure "has been marked by increased audiences and an uncommonly strong bond with the orchestra's musicians."[12]

Sarasota Music Festival edit

In 2016, Kahane was appointed Music Director of the Sarasota Music Festival, a program of Sarasota Orchestra. In his tenure as Music Director, Kahane plans "to preserve all the great things about it and experiment and tweak things here and there."[13] Under Kahane's direction, the Festival has featured the ensemble yMusic, as well as premieres of commissioned works by composers Robert Sirota and Andrea Clearfield. Kahane has plans to incorporate music by more female and young composers in future Festivals, in addition to offering a wider range of repertoire and commissioning more new works.[13]

Educational activities edit

Kahane founded the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's Family Concert series, and he is personally involved in the orchestra's Meet the Music program, which serves approximately 2,700 Los Angeles elementary school students annually.

"The thing I myself am most proud of," Kahane said in 2004, "is that in the nine years that I've been music director between the two orchestras [Los Angeles and Santa Rosa], with two exceptions, I have conducted every single children's concert, youth concert, family concert and neighborhood concert that either of those two orchestras has done."[11]

Personal life edit

Kahane and his wife, Martha, a psychologist in private practice and an avid choral singer, live in Los Angeles. They have two adult children: Gabriel Kahane, a composer, pianist, and singer living in Brooklyn; and Annie, a choreographer and poet.[14]

Awards and recognition edit

  • Fourth Place: Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, 1981
  • Grand Prize: Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, 1983
  • Avery Fisher Career Grant, 1983
  • The first Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, 1987
  • In 2002, League of American Orchestras MetLife Award for Excellence in Community Engagement, for educational projects with the Santa Rosa Symphony
  • Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary degree), Sonoma State University, 2005
  • Under Kahane's leadership, both the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Colorado Symphony Orchestra received 2007 ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming. It was the third time in four years that LACO had received the award.

Recordings edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Citizen Kahane: Santa Rosa Symphony's Jeffrey Kahane Has the World on a string". The Sonoma County Independent. 1996-03-14. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
  2. ^ a b . IMG Artists website. Archived from the original on 2017-01-10. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
  3. ^ a b c d "Jeffrey Kahane (Piano, Harpsichord, Conductor)". Retrieved 2008-07-05.
  4. ^ "Pianist & Conductor Jeffrey Kahane - CM Artists New York". www.cmartists.com. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
  5. ^ a b c d . Santa Rosa Symphony website. Archived from the original on May 16, 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
  6. ^ Murphy, Dave. "MARIN SONOMA NAPA FRIDAY; Pg. F3; COMMUNITY NOTES". San Francisco Chronicle. p. F3.
  7. ^ Pasles, Chris (2005-09-25). "It Turns Out It's a Player After All". Los Angeles Times.
  8. ^ Pasles, Chris (2008-03-28). "Kahane Extends Contract". Los Angeles Times.
  9. ^ Mermelstein, David (2006-05-01). "The Lightning Conductor: Why the L.A. Chamber Orchestra Is Again Turning Heads". Los Angeles Magazine.
  10. ^ CK Dexter Haven (2014-04-23). "Jeffrey Kahane leaving LA Chamber Orchestra after 2016-2017 season". All is Yar. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
  11. ^ a b MacMillan, Kyle (2004-04-27). "Kahane Takes Baton for 'Very Special' CSO". The Denver Post.
  12. ^ a b MacMillan, Kyle. "CSO music director Kahane's tenure is taking an early bow". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
  13. ^ a b Handelman, Jay (26 May 2019). "Sarasota Music Festival continues to evolve in its 55th yea". Gatehouse Media. Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  14. ^ "Pianist & Conductor Jeffrey Kahane - CM Artists New York". cmartists.com. Retrieved 2023-09-11.

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This article contains content that is written like an advertisement Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view March 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message Jeffrey Alan Kahane born September 12 1956 is an American classical concert pianist and conductor He was music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for 20 years the longest of any music director in the orchestra s history He is the music director of the Sarasota Music Festival a program of the Sarasota Orchestra and a professor of keyboard studies Piano at the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles CaliforniaJeffrey KahaneBornJeffrey Alan KahaneLos Angeles California U S EducationSan Francisco Conservatory of Music BM University of Colorado Boulder MA Children2 including Gabriel Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Santa Rosa Symphony 2 2 Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra 2 3 Colorado Symphony 2 4 Sarasota Music Festival 2 5 Educational activities 3 Personal life 4 Awards and recognition 5 Recordings 6 References 7 External linksEarly life and education editKahane grew up in West Los Angeles and began studying piano at age five and at age 10 began learning to play the guitar For the next few years he split his time between his piano studies and playing folk and rock music on the guitar At age 14 he was accepted as a scholarship pupil by the Polish born pianist Jakob Gimpel I was completely transformed by the contact with him Kahane said There was something that I got from Brahms and Beethoven and Bach that I couldn t live without And I wanted to make a contribution to keeping it vital and alive 1 2 After his sophomore year of high school Kahane entered the San Francisco Conservatory of Music He studied piano and conducting and graduated in 1977 While in San Francisco he played keyboard instruments in the San Francisco Symphony explored jazz and played in the pit for a touring Broadway musical 2 3 Kahane later earned a Master of Arts degree in classics from the University of Colorado Boulder 4 Career editAt the age of 24 Kahane entered the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1981 and won fourth place Kahane received additional exposure because PBS broadcast the competition s finals round Two years later he won the Grand Prize in the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Israel 1 3 Kahane made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1983 at an Arthur Rubinstein Tribute Concert and his London debut in 1985 In 1983 he won an Avery Fisher Career Grant and in 1987 the first Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award He has made numerous solo appearances in recital and with major orchestras around the world including New York Philharmonic Cleveland Orchestra Los Angeles Philharmonic Philadelphia Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Rotterdam Philharmonic Israel Philharmonic and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra In addition he has become a favored recital accompanist for Yo Yo Ma Dawn Upshaw Joshua Bell and Thomas Quasthoff and he often appears with leading chamber ensembles such as the Emerson String Quartet 3 5 In the summer of 2003 Kahane performed all five Beethoven piano concertos with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra over two consecutive nights at the Hollywood Bowl He repeated the cycle at Ravinia with the Chicago Symphony in the summer of 2004 During the 2005 2006 concert season he performed all 23 of the Mozart piano concertos as part of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the composer s birth 3 5 Kahane made his conducting debut at the Oregon Bach Festival in 1988 conducting a Mozart concerto from the keyboard He has often returned to the festival as both pianist and conductor 5 In 1991 Kahane co founded the Gardner Chamber Orchestra at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum an ensemble of outstanding students and recent graduates of the major schools of music in the Boston area He served as artistic director and conductor from 1991 to 1995 Santa Rosa Symphony edit In 1995 Kahane became music director of the Santa Rosa Symphony He held the post until the end of the 2005 06 season after which he was given the title of conductor laureate 5 Under Kahane s leadership the subscriber base increased almost twofold and artistic standards improved My tenure with the Santa Rosa Symphony has been the most fulfilling and exciting years of my musical life Kahane said As I move forward I know that nothing I ever do will mean more to me than the privilege of working with these amazing and dedicated musicians and making music with them for this exceptionally passionate and committed audience 6 Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra edit Kahane has been music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 1997 succeeding Iona Brown 7 In 2008 his contract was extended through the 2011 12 season 8 According to critic David Mermelstein Kahane s taste in new music doesn t appeal to everyone Some critics find his idea of modern too conservative and LACO s older subscribers have been known to grumble about even safe choices Of course pleasing everyone all the time isn t music making it s pandering On balance Kahane does a laudable job of giving concert goers a healthy mix of the familiar and the slightly daring His ability to land major soloists however is beyond reproach Such celebrated performers as Hilary Hahn Thomas Quasthoff Lang Lang Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Daniel Hope have appeared with LACO in recent years and next season promises first appearances by Cho Liang Lin and Peter Serkin But Kahane s achievement at LACO has nothing to do with enriching the musical canon or lassoing big names It is instead the story of a modest musician who through patience and perhaps a little guile restored dignity to a group of dispirited players He made them feel their music making mattered and now others do too We re certainly not the only place in America where musicians are happy says the conductor but the combination of that attitude with this level of playing is very rare 9 In April 2014 Kahane announced that he would step down after the 2016 17 season after which will officially assume the title of Music Director Laureate His twenty year long tenure will be the longest of any Music Director in the orchestra s history 10 Colorado Symphony edit Kahane became music director of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra in 2005 His initial contract was for three years 11 In 2008 Kahane extended his Colorado Symphony contract through 2012 However in July 2008 Kahane announced his resignation from the orchestra at the end of the 2009 10 season Kahane said that severe hypertension in 2007 which caused him to cancel several weeks of concerts in both Colorado and Los Angeles led to his decision to concentrate more on his solo piano career I had a real scare That forced me to really stop and take a look at my life and say You know what You can t do everything I don t think I underestimated the job I think I overestimated myself not in my abilities but just being in a body and turning 50 12 According to The Denver Post Kahane s tenure has been marked by increased audiences and an uncommonly strong bond with the orchestra s musicians 12 Sarasota Music Festival edit In 2016 Kahane was appointed Music Director of the Sarasota Music Festival a program of Sarasota Orchestra In his tenure as Music Director Kahane plans to preserve all the great things about it and experiment and tweak things here and there 13 Under Kahane s direction the Festival has featured the ensemble yMusic as well as premieres of commissioned works by composers Robert Sirota and Andrea Clearfield Kahane has plans to incorporate music by more female and young composers in future Festivals in addition to offering a wider range of repertoire and commissioning more new works 13 Educational activities edit Kahane founded the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra s Family Concert series and he is personally involved in the orchestra s Meet the Music program which serves approximately 2 700 Los Angeles elementary school students annually The thing I myself am most proud of Kahane said in 2004 is that in the nine years that I ve been music director between the two orchestras Los Angeles and Santa Rosa with two exceptions I have conducted every single children s concert youth concert family concert and neighborhood concert that either of those two orchestras has done 11 Personal life editKahane and his wife Martha a psychologist in private practice and an avid choral singer live in Los Angeles They have two adult children Gabriel Kahane a composer pianist and singer living in Brooklyn and Annie a choreographer and poet 14 Awards and recognition editFourth Place Van Cliburn International Piano Competition 1981 Grand Prize Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition 1983 Avery Fisher Career Grant 1983 The first Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award 1987 In 2002 League of American Orchestras MetLife Award for Excellence in Community Engagement for educational projects with the Santa Rosa Symphony Doctor of Fine Arts honorary degree Sonoma State University 2005 Under Kahane s leadership both the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Colorado Symphony Orchestra received 2007 ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming It was the third time in four years that LACO had received the award Recordings editPENTATONE OXINGALE SERIES Tippet Rise Opus 2017 Matt Haimovitz Anne Marie McDermott Yevgeny Sudbin Andrea Lam Jessica Sindell Caroline Goulding David Fung Vicky Chow Doug Perkins PENTATONE PTC 5186736 2018 Bach Concerto for violin strings amp continuo No 2 in E major BWV 1042 Hilary Hahn violin Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Kahane conductor Deutsche Grammophon Bach Concerto for 2 violins strings amp continuo in D minor Double BWV 1043 Hilary Hahn violin Margaret Batjer violin Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Kahane conductor Deutsche Grammophon Bach Concerto for violin strings amp continuo No 1 in A minor BWV 1041 Hilary Hahn violin Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Kahane conductor Deutsche Grammophon Bach Concerto for oboe amp violin or 2 violins strings amp continuo in D minor reconstruction BWV 1060R Hilary Hahn violin Allan Vogel oboe Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Kahane conductor Deutsche Grammophon Bach Partita for Keyboard No 4 in D BWV828 Jeffrey Kahane piano Nonesuch Bach Three part Inventions Sinfonia for Keyboard BWV787 801 Jeffrey Kahane piano Nonesuch Bach Brandenburg Concertos Nos 1 6 BWV 1046 1051 Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra Helmuth Rilling conductor Jeffrey Kahane harpsichord Hanssler Verlag Bach Harpsichord Concertos BWV 1060 1062 1061a Jeffrey Kahane harpsichord Robert Levin harpsichord Oregon Bach Festival Chamber Orchestra Helmuth Rilling conductor Hanssler Verlag Bernstein Sonata for clarinet amp piano Yo Yo Ma cello Jeffrey Kahane piano Sony Classical Bernstein Symphony No 2 for Piano and Orchestra Age of Anxiety Jeffrey Kahane piano Bournemouth Symphony Andrew Litton conductor Virgin EMI Classics Gershwin Preludes 3 for Piano Yo Yo Ma cello Jeffrey Kahane piano Sony Classical Rorem From an Unknown Past Brian Asawa counter tenor Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Kahane conductor BMG RCA Victor Red Seal Rorem More Than a Day song cycle for counter tenor and orchestra Brian Asawa counter tenor Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Kahane conductor BMG RCA Victor Red Seal Rorem Water Music for violin clarinet amp orchestra Margaret Batjer violin Gary Grey clarinet Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Kahane conductor BMG RCA Victor Red Seal Schoenfield Four Parables for Piano amp Orchestra Jeffrey Kahane piano New World Symphony John Nelson conductor Argo Decca Schubert Complete Works for Violin and Piano Joseph Swensen violin Jeffrey Kahane piano BMG RCA Victor Red Seal Richard Strauss Burleske in D minor Jeffrey Kahane piano Eugene Espino timpani Cincinnati Symphony Jesus Lopez Cobos conductor TelarcReferences edit a b Citizen Kahane Santa Rosa Symphony s Jeffrey Kahane Has the World on a string The Sonoma County Independent 1996 03 14 Retrieved 2008 07 05 a b Jeffrey Kahane Conductor Full Biography IMG Artists website Archived from the original on 2017 01 10 Retrieved 2008 07 05 a b c d Jeffrey Kahane Piano Harpsichord Conductor Retrieved 2008 07 05 Pianist amp Conductor Jeffrey Kahane CM Artists New York www cmartists com Retrieved 2021 05 09 a b c d About Jeffrey Kahane Santa Rosa Symphony website Archived from the original on May 16 2008 Retrieved 2008 07 05 Murphy Dave MARIN SONOMA NAPA FRIDAY Pg F3 COMMUNITY NOTES San Francisco Chronicle p F3 Pasles Chris 2005 09 25 It Turns Out It s a Player After All Los Angeles Times Pasles Chris 2008 03 28 Kahane Extends Contract Los Angeles Times Mermelstein David 2006 05 01 The Lightning Conductor Why the L A Chamber Orchestra Is Again Turning Heads Los Angeles Magazine CK Dexter Haven 2014 04 23 Jeffrey Kahane leaving LA Chamber Orchestra after 2016 2017 season All is Yar Retrieved 2014 04 24 a b MacMillan Kyle 2004 04 27 Kahane Takes Baton for Very Special CSO The Denver Post a b MacMillan Kyle CSO music director Kahane s tenure is taking an early bow The Denver Post Retrieved 2008 07 10 a b Handelman Jay 26 May 2019 Sarasota Music Festival continues to evolve in its 55th yea Gatehouse Media Sarasota Herald Tribune Retrieved 7 June 2019 Pianist amp Conductor Jeffrey Kahane CM Artists New York cmartists com Retrieved 2023 09 11 External links editLos Angeles Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Kahane Music Director Colorado Symphony Music Director Jeffrey Kahane Jeffrey Kahane pianist information Archived 2009 06 28 at the Wayback Machine at IMG Artists Jeffrey Kahane conductor information Archived 2008 04 30 at the Wayback Machine at IMG Artists Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jeffrey Kahane amp oldid 1174840535, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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