In 2012, Kaner was the Margaret Lee Crofts Fellow in composition at Tanglewood where he had the opportunity to work with composers like George Benjamin, Oliver Knussen and Michael Gandolfi. In the following year, he received the Royal Philharmonic Society composition prize. Kaner was commissioned afterwards to write for the Philharmonia Music of Today series which was premiered by members of the Philharmonia in the Royal Festival Hall in 2014. During his time as composer-in-association with the Workers' Union, he wrote the piece Organum as part of the Performing Rights Society (PRS) Music Foundation's Constructing a Repertoire project.
