Jeffrey Alan Kahane was born on September 12,1956 and is an American classical concert pianist and conductor.
24 Facts About Jeffrey Kahane
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Jeffrey Kahane was music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for 20 years, the longest of any music director in the orchestra's history.
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Jeffrey Kahane is the music director of the Sarasota Music Festival, a program of the Sarasota Orchestra, music director of the San Antonio Philharmonic, and a professor of keyboard studies at the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, California.
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Jeffrey Kahane studied piano and conducting, and graduated in 1977.
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Jeffrey Kahane later earned a Master of Arts degree in classics from the University of Colorado Boulder.
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At the age of 24, Jeffrey Kahane entered the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1981 and won fourth place.
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Jeffrey Kahane received additional exposure because PBS broadcast the competition's finals round.
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Jeffrey Kahane made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1983 at an Arthur Rubinstein Tribute Concert, and his London debut in 1985.
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Jeffrey Kahane 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.
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Jeffrey Kahane repeated the cycle at Ravinia with the Chicago Symphony in the summer of 2004.
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Jeffrey Kahane made his conducting debut at the Oregon Bach Festival in 1988, conducting a Mozart concerto from the keyboard.
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Jeffrey Kahane has often returned to the festival as both pianist and conductor.
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In 1991, Jeffrey 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.
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Jeffrey Kahane served as artistic director and conductor from 1991 to 1995.
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In 1995, Jeffrey Kahane became music director of the Santa Rosa Symphony.
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Jeffrey Kahane has been music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 1997, succeeding Iona Brown.
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Jeffrey Kahane made them feel their music making mattered, and now others do, too.
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Jeffrey Kahane became music director of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra in 2005.
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In 2008, Jeffrey Kahane extended his Colorado Symphony contract through 2012.
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Jeffrey 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:.
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In 2016, Jeffrey Kahane was appointed Music Director of the Sarasota Music Festival, a program of Sarasota Orchestra.
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Jeffrey 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.
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In 2024, Jeffrey Kahane was appointed to be the first music director of the San Antonio Philharmonic.
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Jeffrey 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.