Musica Viva Australia: Pekka Kuusisto and Gabriel Kahane

Out of the box.
Pekka Kuusisto is an acclaimed violinist. Gabriel Kahane is a composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. Both classically trained, both comfortable inside and outside the box, they wander those sometimes strange, sometimes quirky, but always beautiful borderlands where creativity thrives.  

They come together in a new collaboration, commissioned for recording and performance by by an international partnership including ‘Kahane’s work…is, first and foremost, an exercise in lyric beauty. He sings in a warm, resonant, melancholic baritone, which coasts upward into a plaintive falsetto. He plays the piano with a poetic touch…and his music is suffused with idiosyncratic, enriched tonal harmony…he is one of the finest, most searching songwriters of the day.’ – The New Yorker 

Meet the Artists

Following the concert, please join Pekka Kuusisto & Gabriel Kahane for a post-concert discussion onstage in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall.

Tuesday 6 August 2024 7pm
Duration: 1 hour 15 mins (no interval) Please note, running times are approximate and subject to change.

Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

TICKETS: Premium $141 ($128 Concession); A reserve $115 ($102 Concession); B reserve $87 ($76 Concession); C reserve $62 ($55 Concession)
Under 40 $40