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    Kent George Nagano is an American conductor born in 1951 in Morro Bay, California. He studied music at several universities in the US and Canada. Nagano became music director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra in 1978 and helped turn it into a progressive force in northern California. Over his career, he has held positions as music director for several orchestras including the Hallé Orchestra and currently the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Nagano is praised for his conducting of complex scores but sometimes criticized for lacking warmth, and is known for his exuberant style without using a baton.

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    Kent George Nagano is an American conductor born in 1951 in Morro Bay, California. He studied music at several universities in the US and Canada. Nagano became music director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra in 1978 and helped turn it into a progressive force in northern California. Over his career, he has held positions as music director for several orchestras including the Hallé Orchestra and currently the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Nagano is praised for his conducting of complex scores but sometimes criticized for lacking warmth, and is known for his exuberant style without using a baton.

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    Kent George Nagano is an American conductor born in 1951 in Morro Bay, California. He studied music at several universities in the US and Canada. Nagano became music director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra in 1978 and helped turn it into a progressive force in northern California. Over his career, he has held positions as music director for several orchestras including the Hallé Orchestra and currently the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Nagano is praised for his conducting of complex scores but sometimes criticized for lacking warmth, and is known for his exuberant style without using a baton.

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    (b Morro Bay, CA, 22 Nov 1951). American conductor. Born to Japanese-
    American parents, he received piano lessons from his mother; he also learnt
    the clarinet and the koto. He studied at Oxford, at the University of California,
    Santa Cruz (BA, 1974), with Grosvenor Cooper, at San Francisco State
    University (MM, 1976), where he studied conducting with Laszlo Varga and the
    piano with Goodwin Sammel, and at the University of Toronto (1977–9).
    During this time he also became répétiteur and assistant conductor for
    Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston and conducted chamber opera in San
    Francisco and ballet in Oakland. He was invited to become music director of
    the Berkeley SO in 1978, and thus began his long association with Messiaen.
    Over two decades he turned the Berkeley orchestra into a progressive force in
    northern California music-making. In December 1983 he was Ozawa's
    assistant for the première of Messiaen's only opera, Saint François d'Assise, in
    Paris. The next year he joined the faculty at the Tanglewood Music Center,
    made his début with the Boston SO, and became director of the Ojai Music
    Festival. He was the first winner (with Hugh Wolff) of the Affiliate Artist's
    Seaver Conducting Award and was appointed principal guest conductor for the
    Ensemble Intercontemporain (1986–9). He became music director of the
    Lyons Opéra in 1989, and was associate principal guest conductor of the LSO
    (1990–98) and music director of the Hallé Orchestra (1992–2000). In 2000 he
    took up the post of chief conductor of the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester.
    Nagano excels at complex scores and has been praised for his technique, if
    not always for his warmth, especially in performances of Messiaen and Mahler.
    In Lyons he performed and recorded rare repertory, including Poulenc's
    Dialogues des Carmélites, Martinů's Les trois souhaits, Prokofiev's The Love
    for Three Oranges (which was named Gramophone magazine's Record of the
    Year in 1990) and the first recording of Strauss's Salomé with the original
    French text by Oscar Wilde. His exuberant and graceful movement on the
    podium is reminiscent of his mentor, Ozawa; and, like Ozawa, he conducts
    without a baton. He revived the status of the Hallé Orchestra as well, but his
    expensive programming, with its emphasis on contemporary works, led to
    empty seats in the new Bridgewater Hall and was blamed for the near-
    bankruptcy of the orchestra in 1998. In 2000 Nagano was replaced as the
    Hallé's musical director by Mark Elder.
    JOSÉ BOWEN

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