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Press
“I’m placing this recording amongst some pretty significant trio recordings, like the early Bill Evans Trio, early ’60s Denny Zeitlin, and Brad Mehldau.”
Michael P. Gladstone, All About Jazz
“His compositions stand shoulder-to-shoulder with tunes by Sammy Cahn, Herbie Hancock and Duke Ellington.”
Seth Rogovoy, The Rogovoy Report
Barkan is enamored of the piano’s beautiful tonal qualities and its vast potential for rapturous melody.
Ed Hazell, Boston Phoenix
A gripping musical experience from start to finish.
Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
A superb pianist, whose music, Hispanic-inflected, has a visceral power and excitement.
Howard Kissel, NY Daily News
Barkan’s compositions reveal him as a distinctive voice in the sometimes crowded-seeming field of musicians with superb technique.
Siddhartha Mitter, The Boston Globe
Barkan’s masterful pianistics are rendered in the service of the song, not to prove himself to anyone.
Jeff Tamarkin, All Music Guide
Compelling music with a tender heart.
Jeff Potter, Modern Drummer
Records
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Michelle
Sing Rae. Single, 2025.
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First Song
Sing Rae. Single, 2025.
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Not
Sing Rae. Instrumental album.
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Solo Piano, Vol. 2
Improvised alone, no edits. Keyboard and bass guitar on “What?”
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Solo Piano, Vol. 1
Improvised alone, no edits.
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Proceso de Duelo
2009. Amir Milstein, flute. Keala Kaumeheiwa, bass. Harvey Wirht, drums.
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Live Sessions
2007, two discs. Amir Milstein, flute. Dan Greenspan and John Lockwood, bass. Harvey Wirht, drums.
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Amaravati
Trio. Dan Greenspan, bass. Harvey Wirht, drums.
About
I play piano and write tunes. For years I worked the Boston and New York rooms: Ryles, Regattabar, Scullers, Joe’s Pub, the Zinc Bar, the Iridium, the Apollo. I made three band records and two volumes of solo piano along the way.
Somewhere in there, I took a master’s in family therapy and learned systems theory, which is a formal way of listening to how people talk to each other.
Now I’m a software engineer at Google, working on how people and AI talk to each other. I still write songs. Some are sung by Sing Rae, a voice rendered by a model. The words, the arrangements and the decisions are mine.
© 2026 Gilad Barkan