Jeffrey Kahane

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jeffrey Kahane
Occupation	Pianist
Date Of Birth	Sep 12, 1956(1956-09-12)
Age	68
Birthplace	California
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Virgo

Jeffrey Kahane Biography

Jeffrey Kahane is one of the most popular and richest Pianist who was born on September 12, 1956 in California, California, United States. Became music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in 1997. He performed with many of the major orchestras in the world.

He became a coveted recital accompanist and a favorite of Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, and Joshua Bell.

After his sophomore year of high school, Kahane entered the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He studied piano and conducting, and graduated in 1977. While in San Francisco, he played keyboard instruments in the San Francisco Symphony, explored jazz, and played in the pit for a touring Broadway musical.

At the age of 24, Kahane entered the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1981 and won fourth place. “I was amazed just to get in”, Kahane said. “By the end, I was in an altered state. It really changed my life.” Kahane received additional exposure because PBS broadcast the competition’s finals round. Two years later, he won the Grand Prize in the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Israel.

He married clinical psychologist and choral singer Martha with whom he had two children: composer, pianist, and singer Gabriel Kahane and daughter Annie.

Jeffrey Kahane Net Worth

Jeffrey Kahane is one of the richest Pianist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jeffrey Kahane 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He came in fourth at the 1981 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition when he was 24.

He and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra gave a two-night presentation of Beethoven’s five piano concertos at the Hollywood Bowl in Summer 2003.

Jeffrey Alan Kahane (born September 12, 1956, in Los Angeles, California) is an American classical concert pianist and conductor. He was music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra following a 20-year run, the longest of any music director in the orchestra’s history. He is currently the Music Director of the Sarasota Music Festival, a program of Sarasota Orchestra and is Professor of Keyboard Studies (Piano) at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, California

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Kahane has been music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 1997, succeeding Iona Brown. In 2008, his contract was extended through the 2011–12 season.

Facts & Trivia

Jeffrey Ranked on the list of most popular Pianist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jeffrey Kahane celebrates birthday on September 12 of every year.

“The thing I myself am most proud of”, Kahane said in 2004, “is that in the nine years that I’ve been music director between the two orchestras [Los Angeles and Santa Rosa], with two exceptions, I have conducted every single children’s concert, youth concert, family concert and neighborhood concert that either of those two orchestras has done.”