Pekka Kuusisto & Gabriel Kahane 

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Out of the box 

Acclaimed violinist Pekka Kuusisto and award-winning singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane collaborate on a new genre-defying work which explores, with wry charm and piercing insight, what it means to make chamber music in the twenty-first century. 

2024 Concert Season

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 an international partnership including Musica Viva Australia. The relaxed, intimate evening is an exploration of what it means to be artists in the 21st century; artists for whom honouring a classical heritage is as important as chasing the new. Be fascinated, entertained, moved and changed by what they make.

"Pekka Kuusisto…surely has the most personal sound of any classical violinist now alive "

— Telegraph 

"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 

Listen to the music before you hear Pekka Kuusisto & Gabriel Kahane live.