# Jeffrey Kahane

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 == Personal history == Kahane grew up in West Los Angeles, and began studying piano at age five, and at age 10 began learning to play the guitar.