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	Kent Nagano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kent Nagano (born November 22, 1951) is an American conductor.
		He was born in Berkeley, California while his parents were in graduate school at the University of California.
		Olivier Messiaen chose Nagano to premiere his opera Saint François d'Assise in 1983.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kent_Nagano (234 words)

	Interview with Kent Nagano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nagano's Berkeley connection remains strong; he still leads the Symphony and, in a move that signals his commitment to raising the standards of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, he has hired Berkeley Symphony's concertmaster, Stuart Canin, as the new LAO concertmaster.
		Nagano has not abandoned Europe, either; his LAO job is part of a balancing act with Berlin's Deutsche Symphonie Orchester, where he has been chief conductor and artistic director since June 2000.
		Nagano was tapped for the post of principal conductor by Domingo, Los Angeles Opera's multitasking artistic director, whose own commitments away from L.A. include a full calendar of singing and conducting appearances, plus the artistic directorship of Washington Opera.
	www.tenorissimo.com /domingo/Art/on902.htm (2766 words)

	Kent Nagano _ biography
		Nagano was the unanimous first choice of the selection committee mandated to find a new Music Director.
		Nagano has built an enviable reputation on the classical music scene over the years for his remarkable talents as an interpreter not only of the symphonic but also the operatic repertoire.
		Nagano was Music Director of the Opéra National de Lyon, from 1988 to 1998, and Music Director of the Hallé Orchestra (Manchester) from 1991 to 2000.
	www.kentnagano.com /Pressrelease.htm (558 words)

	Kent Nagano _ reviews
		Over the years, Kent Nagano has turned the LA Opera Orchestra into one of the finest groups of its type in the country, and this Parsifal was one of its most impressive efforts.
		Under Nagano's baton, the orchestra played with a fluency and muscularity that endowed Wagner's allusive poem with dramatic coherence and explored the whole emotional range of the drama.
		"In all, Nagano's was a magnificent Mahler interpretation.
	www.kentnagano.com /05Reviews.htm (650 words)

	Kent Nagano
		Kent Nagano has established a reputation as a gifted interpreter of both the operatic and symphonic repertoire.
		Kent Nagano rose to prominence in 1984 when Olivier Messiaen selected him to assist Seiji Ozawa in preparing the world premiere of his opera Saint Francois d'Assise.
		Nagano has known this score since it was being written, and through his command of tempo and sonority he makes it sound out full and clear.
	www.berkeleysymphony.org /who/kent.htm (695 words)

	classical music - andante - much ado about nothing -- kent nagano to stay in berlin after all
		Nagano's orchestra, the DSO, is a member of ROC, or Rundfunk-Orchester und ChÃ¶re GmbH, an umbrella organization founded back in 1995 in response to the post-reunification problems that threatened the continued existence of Berlin's radio orchestras and choirs.
		Others speculated that Nagano was seeking a legitimate excuse to abandon his Berlin post in favor of a more prestigious job — in Munich as Levine's successor, perhaps, or in Leipzig or Hamburg, where he could be a bigger fish in a smaller pond and would no longer have to beg for every penny.
		Nagano's squabbles with Pesch were not worthy of the press attention accorded them; the injustices committed against him were largely in his own imagination.
	www.andante.com /magazine/article.cfm?id=15426 (1252 words)

	Montreal Mirror - Music : Kent Nagano
		When Kent Nagano convinced Björk to tackle the speaking part of Arnold Schoenberg’s 1912 atonal masterpiece Pierrot Lunaire, he was bridging cultural divides with customary cool.
		Nagano’s loyalty to Berkeley - which some call “bizarre” for one of the world’s most sought-after maestros (he was once dubbed “classical music’s hot new conductor dude” by People magazine and “the next Leonard Bernstein” by New York) - says a lot about his view of music’s role in everyday life.
		Part of Nagano’s task involves shattering stereotypes of northern California’s “pseudo-intellectuals sitting in their hot tubs in Marin County chasing down alternative lifestyles and religions” and southern Cal’s “frolicking on the beach, amid palms, fast-food and the superficiality of glamour and marketing.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2003/012303/music_cover.html (2010 words)

	LA Downtown News Online
		Kent Nagano, with L.A. Opera Orchestra personnel manager David Low and assistant conductor/vocal coach Paul Floyd, at County Line State Beach.
		When Nagano conducts the closing night of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion this Saturday, April 15, it will be his final performance with the L.A. Opera in the role of music director.
		When Nagano leaves Los Angeles, he may be taking over one of the oldest opera houses in Europe, but as a photograph on the final page of the tribute book attests, Nagano is not forsaking his California past.
	downtownnews.com /articles/2006/04/10/entertainment/entertainment02.txt (770 words)

	Welcome to LA Opera \| LA Opera
		Kent Nagano has been a guest conductor with some of the world's most prestigious music organizations, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Salzburg Festival, the London Symphony, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera and the Châtelet in Paris.
		Nagano's diverse and imaginative programs for the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin have won him praise from audience and critics alike, and his recent Harmonia Mundi recordings with that orchestra of Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge, Schönberg's Die Jakobsleiter and Friede auf Erden, Bernstein's Mass, Bruckner's Third and Sixth Symphonies, Mahler's Eighth Symphony and Wolf's Mörike-Lieder reflect this.
		Kent Nagano's many recordings for Erato and Teldec include Billy Budd with Thomas Hampson, Messiaen's Saint Francois d'Assise from the Salzburg Festival, Mahler Symphony No. 3 with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic.
	www.losangelesopera.com /home/nagano.asp (1251 words)

	CBC Arts - CBC Arts: Bells ring out to welcome new Montreal conductor
		Nagano is being warmly welcomed in Montreal after a period that was marred by the 2002 resignation of former director Charles Dutoit, a period without a musical director and a five-month labour dispute.
		Nagano has been front page news in Montreal and was hailed for creating a new spirit of harmony in the orchestra.
		Nagano has not given interviews this week, but his assistant has said that he is overwhelmed by the exposure he's getting.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2006/09/07/kent-nagano-debut.html?print (437 words)

	Bach and Messiaen: Sheryl Staples, Violin, Sherry Sylar, Oboe, New York Philharmonic, Kent Nagano, Conductor, Avery ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Last Saturday night, Kent Nagano and the New York Philharmonic offered what will surely go down as one of the most memorable concerts of the year, with a startling program spanning over two centuries of compositional thought.
		It is an intense, demanding experience – one that requires an expert interpreter to bring it to life – and Nagano and the orchestra chiseled a monolith.
		By the end of the work, Nagano was gazing upward during the final dying chords.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2005/Jan-Jun05/nagano2603.htm (805 words)

	Elegant gestures - Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra launch a new composition prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The current season is Kent Nagano's last as Chief Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
		At the end of October 2005, Kent Nagano conducted the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in its first concerts since the end of a five-month musicians' strike and opened the orchestra's 72nd season.
		Nagano, who is the Music Director designate of the orchestra, received a warm welcome from the players and from the audience.
	www.mvdaily.com /news/item.cgi?id=300661 (317 words)

	Guest Artists
		California-born Kent Nagano became Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin last June, and he becomes Principal Conductor of the Los Angeles Opera this September.
		Nagano first conducted the San Francisco Symphony in 1990 and returned most recently in December 1993.
		Nagano plans to record all the Mahler symphonies with Berlin’s Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester (the Third Symphony was recently released on Teldec) and all of Messiaen’s orchestral works with the Berlin Philharmonic.
	sfsymphony.org /templates/artist.asp?nodeid=392&...&searchtext=nagano (413 words)

	Kent Nagano - Fresh Air in Montreal
		On March 2, 2004, internationally acclaimed Japanese-American conductor Kent Nagano was named the new Artistic Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (starting in 2006-07), replacing the departed Charles Dutoit.
		Nagano is presently the artistic director and principal conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Berlin, and the musical director of the Los Angeles Opera.
		Kent Nagano follows former directors Wilfrid Pelletier (1935-1941), Désiré Defauw (1941-1953), Igor Markevitch (1957-1961), Zubin Mehta (1961-1967), Franz-Paul Decker (1967-1975), Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos (1975-1976) and Charles Dutoit (1977-2002).
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm9-7/Nagano-en.htm (901 words)

	Event Archive: Kent Nagano - Commonwealth Club
		Kent Nagano: In real life and practice, the way the calendar works is through a series of residences.
		Nagano: When we were discussing whether or not we would come, Mr.
		Nagano, as an American-born Californian with a Japanese heritage, what do you think you can bring to Austria and tell us about Mozart?" I thought about it.
	www.commonwealthclub.org /archive/04/04-06nagano-speech.html (2422 words)

	Mondialogo: Info: Kent Nagano
		Kent Nagano was born in Berkeley/California in 1951 as the grandson of Japanese immigrants.
		His early musical education is primarily due to the fact that the small community of Morrow Bay, with barely 2000 inhabitants, happened to have a conservatoire which he was able to attend.
		Nagano is in just as much as demand as a guest conductor and regularly takes up invitations.
	www.mondialogo.org /69.html?&L=en&type=0 (401 words)

	Kent Nagano conducting German symphony, 10-23-00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Houghton says that Nagano's programming, combining works from the 20th and 15th centuries, is unprecedented.
		"Kent gave an electrifying interpretation of the Mahler," said Houghton, who was on hand to watch his former student conduct.
		I, my musical colleagues, critics, and Berliners in general, all agree that Kent is transforming the German Symphony and the musical life of Berlin.
	currents.ucsc.edu /00-01/10-23/nagano.html (258 words)

	Cheryl North Interviews Kent Nagano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The quite wonderful answer is simply that Berkeley has the fervent devotion of Kent Nagano, one of the world's leading conductors - and it is Nagano, this single individual, who holds all of the above-named positions, along with the artistic leadership of the Berkeley Symphony.
		Korisheli was born in the Republic of Georgia in the former Soviet Union," Nagano explained.
		During his years with the orchestra, Nagano has performed a number of masterworks from the pen of Olivier Messiaen, who on several occasions personally attended the concerts.
	www.northworks.net /c_nagano.htm (1092 words)

	Kent Nagano
		Kent Nagano, Los Angeles Opera's Music Director, has been Director of Berlin's Deutsches Symphony-Orchester since June 2000.
		His impact on the musical scene of Berlin has been so great that now both the press and the public are talking about two big Berlin orchestras instead of only the Berlin Philharmonic.
		With a discography of close to 100 compositions consisting of orchestral works, complete operas and concertos, Kent Nagano is one of the most recorded conductors today.
	www.losangelesopera.com /production/preformer.asp?personid=9 (353 words)

	Amazon.ca: Double Concerto/Kremer,..: Music: Gidon Kremer,Kent Nagano,Benjamin Britten,Dara de Cogan,Nikolai ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nagano deserves congratulations for selecting this innovative programme and for the restraint needed in performing work so delicate and inventive; he finally breaks out into virtuosity in the finale of the small orchestra version of the Sinfonietta, making a case for its being quite as fine as the chamber version Britten acknowledged as his op.1.
		All are fascinating, not to mention engaging, and played with great spirit by the Hallé Orchestra with Kent Nagano at the helm.
		Its sunny spirit is just beautifully handled by Nagano and the orchestra, and makes a really fine, attention-getting start to the recording.
	www.amazon.ca /Double-Concerto-Kremer-Gidon-Kremer/dp/B00000JXPP (754 words)

	Bernstein: Mass / Kent Nagano, Et Al \| ArkivMusic
		The score includes a fair amount of pre-recorded material, to be played on speakers surrounding the audience; Nagano has re-recorded some of this material, but has also incorporated some of the original tapes.
		The text on the Nagano recording is less provocative: the Celebrant merely says the expected “Pacem.” There are some musical changes, too: the drums now enter “Almighty Father” in measure 8, not measure 4; Nagano restores some of the cut introduced into the taped Kyrie in the original recording.
		Certainly, the sense of political outrage seems just as relevant today as it did during the Vietnam War—and that sense, as we’re listening, of the connection between then and now gives Mass an added gravity, a sense that what once may have sounded trendy is deeper than that.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?album_id=93682 (853 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Canteloube - Complete Songs of the Auvergne: Music: Kent Nagano,Jean-Michel Bertelli,Frederic Tardy,Dawn ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		While there are elements of the delicate glittering orchestration of his contemporary Ravel, Canteloube's Chants seeks to bring out their full worth by surrounding them with as much of their natural poetry as possible.
		Kent Nagano realises this poetry with a rich but keenly focused Orchestra de l'Opera National de Lyon, while soprano Dawn Upshaw demonstrates not just the sheer beauty of her voice, but concentrates on the lyric, whether wistful, flirtatious, romantic or simply playful.
		Not as voluptuously sensual as Kiri Ti Kanawa's version with the ECO in the early-1980s, Upshaw and Nagano remain closer to the folk origins of the music and the result is utterly enchanting.
	amazon.co.uk /Canteloube-Complete-Auvergne-Kent-Nagano/dp/B000067DO4 (690 words)

	Amazon.ca: V2 1925-1961: L Oeuvre De Edga: Music: Kent Nagano,Mstislav Rostropovich,Nicholas Isherwood,Philippe ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Performed by Orchestre National de France Conducted by Kent Nagano
		Varese's musical aesthetic is so uncompromising, so extreme, that listeners tend to sharply divide themselves between fervent admirers and equally vociferous detractors.
		One of the finest aspects of Kent Nagano's performances of the music is his unwillingness to apologize for it; he lets the music speak for itself in its clumsy, brilliant grandeur.
	www.amazon.ca /V2-1925-1961-L-Oeuvre-Edga/dp/B000005E4F (262 words)

	classical music - andante - munich's bavarian state opera names kent nagano as music director and christoph albrecht as ...
		Two very different productions, in Paris and Bern, of what may well be the first great opera of the 21st century.
		Nagano Says He Hasn't Agreed to Direct Montreal Symphony
		Report: Kent Nagano Is Choice for Montreal Symphony Music Director Post
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=19848 (210 words)

	KQED Arts: Profile - Kent Nagano
		Join maestro Kent Nagano and the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (BSO) as they work with young Japanese composer Naomi Sekiya to bring her brand-new concerto for two guitars to fruition as part of the BSO's first Composer-in-Residence program.
		Maestro Nagano, the music director and conductor of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra since 1978, is a champion of undiscovered and cutting-edge works.
		The partnership between Nagano, Sekiya and the entire Berkeley Symphony Orchestra hopefully marks the beginning of a productive Composer-in-Residence program, bringing new works to ever-greater visibility and rewarding risk and innovation with prominence.
	www.kqed.org /arts/people/profile.jsp?id=5461 (430 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: McGill to Give Kent Nagano Honorary Degree
		Nagano begins his much-anticipated tenure as the Montreal Symphony's music director in 2006.
		He led the orchestra this week in its first concerts since the end of a five-month musicians' strike.
		Born in Berkeley, California, Nagano studied sociology and music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and composition at San Francisco State University.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/3156.html (337 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Kent Nagano Announces First Season at Bavarian State Opera
		The Bavarian State Opera's 2006-07 season, the first under music director Kent Nagano, includes four new productions and two world premieres, the company announced.
		Nagano said, "It was especially important to me to combine Salome with the work of this most successful German composer, whose keen familiarity with Richard Strauss’s musical world enables him to take that tradition into the abstraction of the twenty-first century."
		Representative for Domingo and the WNO were unable to immediately explain the discrepancy.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/4297.html (501 words)

	Prokofiev.org - Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Kent Nagano, Patrick Stewart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Prokofiev.org - Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Kent Nagano, Patrick Stewart
		Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op 67, Patrick Stewart (Narrator), Kent Nagano (cond), Lyon Opera Orchestra, Recorded
		Errors or omissions on this page may be reported to the Editor.
	www.prokofiev.org /recordings/album.cfm?aid=000262 (97 words)

	All Things Strings: Cover Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Well, about half a year ago, I did a tour with [Mstislav] Rostropovich conducting, in Germany, and that was incredible.
		Yes, I recorded it with the Hallé Orchestra under Kent Nagano, but that was a few years ago and I play it quite differently now.
		Just from the way Rostropovich was conducting, I knew there were a lot of things in my playing that I wanted to improve.
	www.stringsmagazine.com /issues/Strings85/CoverStory.shtml (3499 words)

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