Gabriel Kahane
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Biography
[Edit]Gabriel Kahane is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, pianist, and composer; he's a musical polymath equally at home in classical, theater, jazz, and indie pop settings. He has written large-scale orchestral works, piano sonatas, string quartets, and song cycles. He has collaborated with everyone from Elvis Costello and Rufus Wainwright to the Kronos Quartet, and Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Kahane was born in Los Angeles in 1981. The son of pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane, he was raised on both coasts. He studied music beginning at age seven, singing in a Catholic boys' choir. His parents' musical tastes ran the gamut from classical to Paul Simon and other pop acts, which influenced his cultural worldview considerably.
He attended college at the New England Conservatory of Music where he majored in jazz studies and later attended Brown University, where he wrote his first musical "on a lark," and became deeply attracted to the form.
His first nationally noticed work was 2006's Craigslistlieder, for voice and piano. Using eight ads from the website, he created a song cycle that he performed on piano and voice. It was followed in 2007 by Caravan Man, a one-act theater ensemble work, commissioned by the Williamstown Theater Festival.
Other major works that pre-date his first recording are For the Union Dead, a chamber and vocal work based on the poems of Robert Lowell, 2009's Django: Tiny Variations on a Big Dog, for piano — commissioned by his father — and Pocket Concerto, for solo trumpet, flute, clarinet, and string trio (with violin doubling as electric guitar), as well as 2010's Étude: Cobalt Cure for solo violin commissioned by Festival Vestfold, and The Red Book composed for the Kronos Quartet, based on Anne Carson's novel in verse, Autobiography of Red.
In 2011, Kahane recorded Where Are the Arms, his debut collection of songs for Second Story Records. It featured performances by Sufjan Stevens, Sam Amidon, and Chris Thile. That same year he also contributed to Beautiful Mechanical, a collection of songs by younger composers which also included Ryan Lott, Annie Clark, Shara Worden, and Sarah Kirkland Snider. He composed and performed The Memory Palace for baritone and piano, commissioned by New York Festival of Song, and Come on All You Ghosts, for string quartet and baritone, commissioned by Bravo! Vail Valley Chamber Music Festival for the Calder Quartet. The widely acclaimed Orinoco Sketches for large chamber ensemble and soloist was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conducted by composer John Adams.
February House, a two-act musical theater piece, with a libretto by Seth Bockley, was premiered at the Public Theater in New York in 2012 with with an ensemble cast. It was set at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights in an artist's commune founded by author/editor George Davis and Gypsy Rose Lee in 1940. The title refers to Anais Nin's nickname for the location as so many of its residents — including Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, Carson McCullers, W.H. Auden, and Erika Mann — had February birthdays. The cast recording became Kahane's second album and was issued on Storysound Records in October.
This wasn't the only work Kahane delivered in 2012. The Fiction Issue for string quartet, piano, reed organ, two guitars, two solo voices (one male/one female) was commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the composer, Brooklyn Rider, and Worden, and Crane Palimpsest for baritone and chamber orchestra, (the latter was was co-commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra) were also premiered.
A signature work appeared in 2013: Gabriel’s Guide to the 48 States, for baritone, electric guitar, banjo, and chamber orchestra was commissioned by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
That same year Kahane signed to Sony Masterworks, and began composing his debut for the label. The Ambassador, an episodic song cycle about the City of Los Angeles, was inspired by ten of its buildings. Co-produced by Casey Foubert, Matt Johnson, and Rob Moose, it featured guest vocals by Worden and Aiofe O'Donovan, and the instrumental contributions of a host of the brightest young classical musicians on the scene. The Ambassador was issued in June of 2014.
Title: The Ambassador
Artist: Gabriel Kahane
Genre: Rock, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: February House (Original Cast Recording)
Artist: Gabriel Kahane
Genre: Rock, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Little Love (ruined lace edition) / Trophy Longhorns - Single
Artist: Gabriel Kahane
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Crane Palimpsest - EP
Artist: The Knights, Gabriel Kahane
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist, Classical
Title: The Fiction Issue
Artist: Brooklyn Rider, Gabriel Kahane
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist, Classical
Collections
Title: Beck Song Reader
Genre: Alternative
Title: Red Hot + Bach (Deluxe Version)
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Title: Red Hot + Bach
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Title: Song Reader: Twenty Songs By Beck
Genre: Alternative Rock
Title: The Outer Ego (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative, Indie
Title: Rebel: Alternative & Indie Rock (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative, Indie
Title: Rock Alternative: Music For Every Day (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative, Indie
Title: Today With Us Rock Indie (CD2)
Genre: Pop Rock, Alternative, Indie
Title: Letter Of Apology (CD3)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Pop, Alternative, Indie