Gabriel Kahane

Over the last fifteen years, Gabriel Kahane has established a diverse career that has brought him from rock clubs and concert halls to off-Broadway theaters and beyond. His wide-ranging discography includes five albums as a singer-songwriter, several orchestral projects, a disc of chamber music, as well as various other collaborative albums. He has worked with an array of artists ranging from Phoebe Bridgers, Paul Simon, Sylvan Esso, Andrew Bird, and Sufjan Stevens, to the Danish String Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, Attacca Quartet, Caroline Shaw, and Pekka Kuusisto, with whom he plays as the duo Council.

Kahane’s concert music has been performed by dozens of orchestras throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and the United Kingdom. Heirloom—a widely performed piano concerto composed for his father, Jeffrey Kahane—was released last fall by Nonesuch Records, marking Gabriel’s third album for the label. An avid theater artist, Kahane’s work has been seen at Playwrights Horizons, BAM, the Public Theater, and on Broadway, where he made his debut in 2018 with the score for Kenneth Lonergan’s play The Waverly Gallery, starring Elaine May, Lucas Hedges, and Michael Cera.

The creator of the best-selling newsletter “Words and Music” (gabrielkahane.substack.com), Kahane has also published prose in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. The recipient of a 2021 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Kahane relocated in the spring of 2020 to Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his family and serves as Creative Chair of the Oregon Symphony, a post he has held since 2019.