Jeffrey Kahane

Guest Artist

Equally at home at the keyboard or on the podium, Jeffrey Kahane has established an international reputation as a truly versatile artist, recognized by audiences around the world for his mastery of a diverse repertoire ranging from Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to Gershwin, Golijov, and John Adams. Since making his Carnegie Hall debut in 1983, Kahane has given recitals in many of the nation's major music centers, including New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. He regularly appears as soloist with such leading orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and is a popular figure at summer festivals. He is well known for his collaborations with such artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, Joshua Bell, and Thomas Quasthoff and regularly appears with leading chamber ensembles. He made his conducting debut at the Oregon Bach Festival in 1988. Since then he has guest conducted orchestras throughout North America. Currently in his thirteenth season as music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and his fifth and final season as music director of the Colorado Symphony, Kahane was also music director of the Santa Rosa Symphony for ten seasons. His many recordings include the complete Brandenburg Concertos (on harpsichord) with the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra under Helmuth Rilling on the Hännsler label and Bernstein's Age of Anxiety (Symphony No. 2) for Virgin Records, which was nominated by Gramophone Magazine for its Record of the Year award.

At the 2010 OBF

Quasthoff and Kahane: Die Schöne Müllerin
40th Anniversary Gala Concert
At Home with the Schumanns
Jeffrey Kahane in Recital

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