Singer, pianist and composer Gabriel Kahane has a rare perspective on the changing landscape of musical influences and interactions. Armed with astounding technical virtuosity and an intensely deep gift for writing, Kahane is at the forefront of a generation of musicians who find their voices, outlets and audiences in unexpected and exciting places.

As a solo performer, Kahane has appeared at a wide range of venues from the darkest rooms of Brooklyn to the august Ravinia Festival in Chicago. His song cycle Craigslistlieder, art-song settings of eight anonymous posts he found on the ubiquitous personals/classifieds website Craigslist, has won over fans and critics with its affiliation of raucous pop culture and deft high-art craft. His other songs use similar groundwork to interact with the American songbook, literary and historical material, and the unique connection between singer/songwriter and listener.

Kahane is also currently performing and recording with a band, comprised of Rob Moose, violin and mandolin (Antony and the Johnsons, Sufjan Stevens, Duncan Sheik, Orchestra of St. Luke's), Sam Sadigursky, clarinets (The Words Project, Mingus Orchestra, Ray Brown), and Richie Barshay, percussion (Herbie Hancock, The Klezmatics). With similarly varied backgrounds and unimpeachable talent, they are already stirring audiences with new Kahane songs including the Ligeti homage "Side Streets" and the folk-inspired "Slow Down".

Immersed in music since the earliest moments of childhood, Kahane has collaborated in a myriad of settings with an impressive group of musicians. He continues to perform with renowned bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, with whom he has appeared in Los Angeles (REDCAT), London (Wigmore Hall), Berlin (Philharmonie) and at the prestigious Verbier Festival. In 2007, Kahane and award-winning jazz pianist Dan Tepfer debuted a collaboration in which Kahane performs a set of his music solo and then Tepfer and his trio perform the same songs reinterpreted, as an exploration of songwriting and improvisation. Both dynamic performers in their own right and long-time admirers of each other's work, Kahane and Tepfer plan to continue the duo show during the 07-08 concert season.

In addition to these ventures in the pop, jazz and classical music spheres, Kahane has worked extensively in theatre and dance. In the summer of 2007, Kahane was commissioned by the Williamstown Theatre Festival to write, with playwright Tommy Smith, Mecca/Medina, a country-infused retelling of the story of the Prophet Muhammad. The show premiered to great acclaim at the Festival in August 2007. In the 2007-08 season, he travels to Los Angeles to appear as both actor and bandleader for Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers’ emo-rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre. He has served as musical director for two other Les Freres Corbusier/Alex Timbers shows, Hell House (St. Anne's Warehouse) and A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (New York Theatre Workshop), and for the acclaimed revival of John Guare’s Landscape of the Body (Signature Theater).

Kahane makes his home in Brooklyn, NY, in close company with a piano and many books.