It was two years after Grammy-winning Maestro Kent Nagano had signed on with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in 2006 before he sat down with me for his first comprehensive Montreal one-on-one ...

One of Kent Nagano's remarkable gifts as a conductor is the ability to persuade listeners about his own sometimes abstruse musical enthusiasms. He did it again Thursday night during the Berkeley ...

Maria João Pires & Kent Nagano (3/3-3/6) Kent Nagano conducts The Rite of Spring (3/8-3/10) Video: Jeff Calhoun & Eamon John Foley Are Getting Ready to Tell HIS STORY in Dallas ...

Renowned conductor and UC Santa Cruz alumnus Kent Nagano received a Grammy Award for “Best Opera Recording: “Saariaho: L’Amour De Loin” at the 53rd Grammy Awards, held at the Staples Center in Los ...

With a team of researchers and dedicated musicians, the conductor Kent Nagano is taking a historically informed performance approach to Wagner’s epic. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Amsterdam What ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. conductor Kent Nagano feels he lives in three worlds - his native California, his ancestral Japan and the Europe of the music he conducts. But his spirit is on a surfboard in ...

Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor, op. 37 Bruckner, Symphony no. 4 in E-flat major, “Romantic’’ This Beethoven-Bruckner program conducted by Kent Nagano showcases piano virtuoso and OSM ...

Kent Nagano is undeniably a committed conductor of new music, but his tastes in this area can be perplexing. His chief delight seems to be the thorny intellectual constructions turned out by the ...

After Kent Nagano’s Tuesday night appearance as guest conductor of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Wednesday morning’s Montreal Gazette echoed long-standing rumors that the 51-year-old Californian is ...

Three-time Grammy Award winning conductor Kent Nagano will open the 2025 - 2026 Symphonic Season of the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra with sold-out performances delivered on October 2 and 3.