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Over the last decade, Gabriel Kahane has established himself as one of the leading exponents of American song, grafting a deep interest in character and narrative to a keen sense of harmony and rhythm. Kahane now celebrates the release of his fifth LP, The Fiction Issue, an album comprising three chamber works performed by Brooklyn Rider with vocal appearances by Shara Worden, of My Brightest Diamond, and Kahane himself.
Kahane has collaborated with a diverse array of artists, including Sufjan Stevens, Blake Mills, and Chris Thile, for whom Kahane opened 40 concerts in the United States last year. This season found Kahane returning to Carnegie Hall for a duo recital with pianist and composer Timo Andres. In March, he made his European debut with concerts at Kings Place in London, the Paris Philharmonie, and the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki.
As a composer increasingly known for larger-scale works, Kahane has been commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with which he toured in the spring of 2013, performing Gabriel’s Guide to the 48 States, an hour-long cycle on texts from the WPA American Guide series. Additionally, he has written three works for the 2016 New York Philharmonic Biennial. An avid theater artist, Gabriel starred at Brooklyn Academy of Music in the critically lauded staged version of The Ambassador, directed by Tony winner John Tiffany. That production was also presented by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, and by Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where Kahane has
been an artist-in-residence since 2014. He is also the composer-lyricist of the musical February House, which was premiered in 2012 at the Public Theater, for which Gabriel is currently writing a new evening-length musical theater work.
A fellow of both the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, Gabriel lives in Brooklyn.
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