Gabriel Kahane | Attacca Quartet
I’ve known Nathan Schram of Attacca Quartet for almost a decade; he performed in the production of The Ambassador at BAM, and is a deeply soulful musician and person.
Photo credit: David Goddard
Gabriel Kahane | Ambrose Akinmusire
Ambrose Akinmusire emerged in his early twenties as a carrier of the torch for the next generation of young lions. But the quartet he’s worked with for years has grown more and more daring, harmonically, rhythmically, and texturally.
Gabriel Kahane | Caroline Shaw
Caroline Shaw and I began working together in 2011, when she was a member of ACME and played several gigs as a violinist on shows of mine. But it’s been primarily in the last few years that our musical relationship has deepened.
Photo credit: Kait Moreno
Gabriel Kahane | Sandbox Percussion
Sandbox Percussion is the newest addition to my musical community. We’ve admired each other from afar for a while, and they have a particular—and, to me, appealing—interest in moving the percussion quartet beyond the spectacle of highly “gridded” music.
Photo credit: Noah Stern Weber
Gabriel Kahane & Pekka Kuusisto | Council
After nearly a decade of musical friendship, it seems only fitting that the iconic Finnish musician Pekka Kuusisto and cult American singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane have formalized their collaboration under the moniker ‘Council.’ Now, they present an evening of intimate and sonically varied songs & chamber music, written during several writing retreats in Northern Karelia and Portland, Oregon.
Photo credit: Sam Gehrke
Gabriel Kahane | Roomful of Teeth
Roomful of Teeth and I have been orbiting each other for the better part of a decade, but it wasn’t until this winter that they asked if I would write a new work for them.
Gabriel Kahane | emergency shelter intake form
Homelessness, eviction, and the lack of affordable housing are of great concern to many. The release of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted shed further light on the eviction crisis and was one of the inspirations for composer Gabriel Kahane’s emergency shelter intake form.
Gabriel & Jeffrey Kahane | Duo Recital
Jeffrey and Gabriel Kahane are offering a special recital program in the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons from this father-son duo.
Jeffrey Kahane photo credit: E.F. Marton Productions
Gabriel Kahane | In the Garden of the Gift
In the eighteen months since emerging from my year-long internet hiatus, I’ve become increasingly preoccupied with community. This no doubt has something to do with the disconnect I felt from my friends and colleagues, both as a result of the pandemic as well as my protracted absence from digital spaces.
Gabriel Kahane & Anthony McGill | Rhapsody
The history of Blacks and Jews in America is, and always has been, complex and multivalent. Stories of solidarity in labor movements in the 1930s and ‘40s, as well as in the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s, are well-documented. Sadly, there is also a rich history of anti-Black racism in Jewish communities, and antisemitism in Black communities.