Jeffrey Kahane

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Jeffrey Alan Kahane (born September 12, 1956 in Los Angeles ) is an American pianist, harpsichordist, conductor and music teacher.

Kahane had piano lessons from the age of four. He was enthusiastic about rock 'n' roll, played the guitar in various school bands, composed and arranged songs. In 1971 Jakob Gimpel , a student of Alban Berg , became his teacher. He then studied until 1977 at the San Francisco Conservatory with Howard Wiesel and Jakob Gimpel and at the Juilliard School with John Perry . He won second prize at the Clara Haskil Competition in 1977 , finished fourth at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1984 and was the 1983 Artur Rubinstein Competition winner in Israel.

After his debut as a pianist in 1978 in San Francisco, he made his debut in 1983 in a concert dedicated to Rubinstein at Carnegie Hall and in 1985 in London. He then appeared with many well-known American and European orchestras as a soloist and piano accompanist with musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma , Dawn Upshaw and Joshua Bell . With Joseph Swenson he recorded Franz Schubert's entire work for violin and piano. In 1987 he received the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award .

At the Oregon Bach Festival in 1988, Kahane played a piano concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and conducted the orchestra from the piano. In 1991 he founded the Gardner Chamber Orchestra with young musicians and students from Boston , which he directed for four years. In 1995 he became artistic director of the Santa Rosa Symphony Orchestra . As a guest conductor he then appeared with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra , the Philadelphia Orchestra , the Cleveland Orchestra , the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore and Indianapolis. From 1997 to 2017 he also directed the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra , with which he performed all of Mozart's piano concertos in the 2005-06 season.

Between 1988 and 1995, Kanahe taught as a college professor at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. Since 2016 he has been Professor of Keyboard Instruments at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California . The Sonoma State University awarded him in 2005 of an honorary doctorate.

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SURNAME Kahane, Jeffrey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kahane, Jeffrey Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pianist, harpsichordist, conductor and music educator
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles