Following an announcement in March 2024, renowned conductor Kent Nagano has just been officially awarded the prestigious Brahms Prize, awarded to outstanding personalities and performers of classical music every year since 1988. Previous award holders have included such figures as Leonard Bernstein, Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph Eschenbach and Yehudi Menuhin. The award ceremony was held on 29 September. Nagano conducted the Hamburg [...]
Congratulations to conductor Kent Nagano for receiving the honorary appointment from the Order of Canada, figuring among 83 appointments or promotions to the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian distinction. Kent Nagano conducted Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal for 15 years. "He has premiered and commissioned numerous works by Canadian composers, bringing the unique music of Montreal, Quebec and [...]
This first symphonic recording featuring Kent Nagano releases Schubert, Webern, Mahlerand on FARAO classics with Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, devoted to the highly charged period at the turning point between Romanticism and Modernism. The programme consists of two chamber works by Schubert, orchestrated by Mahler and Webern and presented in a new guise, as well as an original, early chamber work [...]
Kent Nagano embarked on a project with Georges Delnon to perform Messiaen's opera Saint François d'Assise. The Elbphilharmonie is the venue for a musical and scenic Gesamtkunstwerk with over 300 participants. Kent Nagano worked with Seiji Ozawa on the world premiere of the seldom-performed St Francois d’ Assise in Paris in 1983. Forty years [...]
Kent Nagano conducts Richard Wagner's Die Walküre continuing the special collaboration between the Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln. "The Wagner Cycles" will perform the second work of the tetralogy Die Walküre as a concert performance in six cities in 2024: Prague (March 9), Amsterdam (March 16), Cologne (March 24), Hamburg (May 1), Dresden (May 9) and [...]
This year's Brahms Prize goes to the renowned conductor Kent Nagano. This was announced by the Brahms Society Schleswig-Holstein on Thursday in Heide (Dithmarschen district). The California-born maestro has been General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Hamburg State Opera and General Music Director of Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2015. The Brahms Prize, [...]
In the 7th Philharmonic Concert of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra on 3-4 March 2024 in the Great Hall of the Elbphilharmonie, Chief Conductor Kent Nagano will present the Fifth Symphony by Anton Bruckner, whose 200th birthday is being celebrated this year. "In this Bruckner anniversary year, one might well ask: 'Who was Anton [...]
“Kent Nagano stands for classical music at the highest level and carries his enthusiasm far into society.” - Dr Carsten Brosda, Minister of Culture and Media Hamburg Ehrung BVO Kent Nagano (c) Claudia Höhne, Bundesverdienstorden, Rathaus Hamburg, Turmsaal, 19.02.2024 Kent Nagano has been honoured by the Federal President with the Grand Cross [...]
Kent Nagano's first concerts in 2024 will take him to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on January 13 for the Dutch premiere of Unsuk Chin's Alaraph 'Rite of the Heartbeat' with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. On January 18 & 19, Kent Nagano will conduct the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich with a world premiere of [...]
On Sunday, 29 October 2023 at 6 p.m. (CET), General Music Director Kent Nagano will conduct the premiere of Richard Strauss’ opera Salome at the State Opera Hamburg. ARTE will broadcast the premiere live and the stream will be available in Europe on ARTE Concert for 180 days afterwards. NDR will also broadcast the [...]