GABRIEL KAHANE

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Gabriel Kahane is a musician and storyteller.

Highlights of the 24/25 season include an off-Broadway run of two solo music theatre pieces, Book of Travelers and Magnificent Bird, which Gabriel will perform in repertory at Playwrights Horizons in New York; the tour of a new collaborative work, Hexagons, written and performed with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Caroline Shaw; the world premiere of an orchestral song cycle for the San Francisco and Oregon Symphonies addressing the 2020 Almeda wildfire; the premiere of a new clarinet concerto for Anthony McGill; and the New York City premiere of his housing oratorio emergency shelter intake form. 

Kahane’s album & stage spectacle, The Ambassador, was produced at the BAM Next Wave Festival in 2014, under the direction of Tony-winner John Tiffany. That work was followed by Book of Travelers, which was staged at BAM in 2017 and released as an album by Nonesuch in 2018.

Gabriel’s creative collaborators range from Phoebe Bridgers, Paul Simon, Sylvan Esso, Chris Thile, and Sufjan Stevens, to the Danish String Quartet, Attacca Quartet, and Pekka Kuusisto, with whom he plays as the duo Council. His prose has appeared in The New Yorker online and in The New York Times; a wide-ranging newsletter “Words and Music,” can be accessed at gabrielkahane.substack.com.

The recipient of a 2021 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Kahane recently relocated to Portland, OR, where he lives with his family and serves as Creative Chair of the Oregon Symphony.

Photo: Jason Quigley