Gershwin Concerto In F

Equally at home at the piano or on the podium, Jeffrey Kahane is recognized around the world for his mastery of a diverse repertoire ranging from Bach and Mozart to the music of our time.

Jeffrey has appeared as soloist and conductor with most major U.S. orchestras and is a popular artist at all the foremost U.S. summer festivals. Since making his Carnegie Hall debut in 1983, he has given recitals in many of the nation’s music centers. A highly respected chamber musician, he collaborates with today’s most important chamber ensembles.

In 2017, Jeffrey completed his 20^th and final season as music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and is now the orchestra’s conductor laureate. He served as music director of the Colorado Symphony 2005-06 through 2009-10 and for 10 seasons was music director of the Santa Rosa Symphony. In 2016, he was appointed music director of the Sarasota Music Festival; he served as the orchestra’s artistic advisor for two seasons.

In addition to these concerts, recent and upcoming engagements include a fifth play/conduct with the New York Philharmonic, and he performs/conducts with the Indianapolis, Vancouver, Milwaukee, Colorado, and San Diego symphonies; concerto appearances with the Toronto, Cincinnati, New World, New Jersey, Oregon, and Utah symphonies; and appearances at the Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Oregon Bach, and Ravinia festivals.

Jeffrey recently conducted two Kurt Weill operas – a rare fully staged production of Weill’s last Broadway opera, Lost in the Stars, during his final LACO season; and a concert version of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny with the Hamburg Symphony.

A Los Angeles native and graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Jeffrey was first prize winner at the 1983 Rubinstein Competition, a finalist at the 1981 Van Cliburn Competition, and the recipient of a 1983 Avery Fisher Career Grant. An avid linguist who fluently reads a number of ancient and modern languages, he received a master’s degree in classics from the University of Colorado in 2011. He is currently a professor of keyboard studies at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.