Gabriel Kahane

Gabriel Kahane is usually a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, pianist, and composer; he’s a musical polymath similarly in the home in traditional, theatre, jazz, and indie pop configurations. He has created large-scale orchestral functions, piano sonatas, string quartets, and music cycles. He offers collaborated with everyone from Elvis Costello and Rufus Wainwright towards the Kronos Quartet, and LA Philharmonic. Kahane was created in LA in 1981. The child of pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane, he grew up on both coasts. He analyzed music starting at age group seven, singing inside a Catholic kids’ choir. His parents’ musical likes went the gamut from traditional to Paul Simon and additional pop functions, which affected his social worldview substantially. He attended university at the brand new Britain Conservatory of Music where he majored in jazz research and later went to Brown University or college, where he published his 1st musical “on the lark,” and became deeply drawn to the proper execution. His 1st nationally noticed function was 2006’s Craigslistlieder, for tone of voice and piano. Using eight advertisements from the web site, he made a song routine that he performed on piano and tone of voice. It was implemented in 2007 by Caravan Guy, a one-act movie theater ensemble function, commissioned with the Williamstown Movie theater Festival. Other main functions that pre-date his first documenting are For the Union Deceased, a chamber and vocal function predicated on the poems of Robert Lowell, 2009’s Django: Tiny Variants on the Big Pup, for piano — commissioned by his dad — and Pocket Concerto, for single trumpet, flute, clarinet, and string trio (with violin doubling as guitar), aswell as 2010’s Étude: Cobalt Treatment for single violin commissioned by Event Vestfold, as well as the Red Book made up for the Kronos Quartet, predicated on Anne Carson’s book in verse, Autobiography of Crimson. In 2011, Kahane documented Where Will be the Hands, his debut assortment of tracks for Second Tale Records. It presented shows by Sufjan Stevens, Sam Amidon, and Chris Thile. That same yr he also added to Gorgeous Mechanical, a assortment of tracks by young composers which also included Ryan Lott, Annie Clark, Shara Worden, and Sarah Kirkland Snider. He made up and performed The Memory space Palace for baritone and piano, commissioned by NY Festival of Music, and Seriously All You Spirits, for string quartet and baritone, commissioned by Bravo! Vail Valley Chamber Music Event for the Calder Quartet. The broadly acclaimed Orinoco Sketches for huge chamber ensemble and soloist was commissioned from the LA Philharmonic and carried out by composer John Adams. Feb Home, a two-act musical theatre piece, having a libretto by Seth Bockley, was premiered at the general public Theatre in NY in 2012 with with an ensemble solid. It was arranged at 7 Middagh Road in Brooklyn Heights within an artist’s commune founded by writer/editor George Davis and Gypsy Rose Lee in 1940. The name identifies Anais Nin’s nickname for the positioning as so a lot of its occupants — including Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, Carson McCullers, W.H. Auden, and Erika Mann — acquired Feb birthdays. The cast documenting became Kahane’s second record and was released on Storysound Information in Oct. This wasn’t the just work Kahane shipped in 2012. The Fiction Concern for string quartet, piano, reed body organ, two guitars, two single voices (one male/one feminine) was commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the composer, Brooklyn Rider, and Worden, and Crane Palimpsest for baritone and chamber orchestra, (the last mentioned was was co-commissioned with the American Composers Orchestra as well as the LA Chamber Orchestra) had been also premiered. A personal work made an appearance in 2013: Gabriel’s Instruction towards the 48 State governments, for baritone, guitar, banjo, and chamber orchestra was commissioned by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. That same calendar year Kahane agreed upon to Sony Masterworks, and started composing his debut for the label. The Ambassador, an episodic melody cycle about the town of LA, was motivated by ten of its structures. Co-produced by Casey Foubert, Matt Johnson, and Rob Moose, it highlighted visitor vocals by Worden and Aiofe O’Donovan, as well as the instrumental efforts of a bunch from the brightest youthful traditional musicians over the picture. The Ambassador was released in June of 2014. After a falling out in clumps with Sony Masterworks over its managing of that recording, which finished in Kahane negotiating launch from his agreement and buying back again rights towards the follow-up, he proceeded to go the D.We.Y. business path for his following LP. A cooperation with acclaimed string quartet Brooklyn Rider, The Fiction Concern found its way to early 2016 and designated the musician’s 1st appearance on Billboard, striking number 3 on the original Classical Albums graph. It comprised a two-character “small theatre” with visitor Shara Worden (My Brightest Gemstone), a vocal function offering three poems by Matthew Zapruder, and an extended version of 1 of his tracks through the Ambassador.