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Jeffrey Kahane plays Beethoven’s 1st Piano Concerto while conducting the New York Philharmonic
As a pianist in his twenties, he placed fourth in the 1981 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Andre-Michel Schub placed first). Two years later he won the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition.