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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.

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Artists

Pekka Kuusisto violin, electric violin, loops, piano, vocals 
Gabriel Kahane piano, electric guitar, keyboards, vocals 

Series

This production is part of the following series: