Cahill investigated the impact early 20th century American modernists had on the composers of her time and explored these influences in concert programs at the Miller Theater at Columbia University, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Galapagos Art Space in New York City, Spoleto Festival USA, the Phillips Collection, the Freer Gallery (part of the Smithsonian Piano 300 gala), and at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco. She has also performed at the Nuovi Spazi Musicali Festival at the American Academy in Rome, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and at the Pacific Crossings Festival in Tokyo, Japan.