On Friday, 27 July at 11.00 a.m. (CET) the official opening ceremony of this year’s Salzburg Festival will take place in the Felsenreitschule. On this occasion, Kent Nagano will conduct the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg with works by Richard Strauss, Gottfried von Einem and Leonard Bernstein.
The ceremony will be broadcast live on TV (ORF 2). Find more information on this here.
Kent Nagano and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal are currently in Europe and will give concerts in Kracow and at the Salzburg Festival, presenting Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion on the occasion of the composer’s 85. birthday anniversary. The concert in Kracow is on 18 July.
The concert in Salzburg on 20 July will be the festival opening within the Ouverture spirituelle. The OSM will celebrate its festival debut with this concert.
Find here information on the tour on the webpages of OSM.
On 5 and 6 July Kent Nagano will stand at the rostrum of Munich Herkulessaal to conduct the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. On the program will be Messiaen’s “Chronochromie” and Bruckner’s Mess No. 2 in e minor.
The concert on 6 July will be broadcast live on BR Klassik. Find here further information about this.
General Music Director of Hamburg Kent Nagano will conduct his first open air concert on the Town Hall square in Hamburg on 25 August. “This concert shall be a musical gift to the citizens of our city”, says Kent Nagano.
On the program will be works by Brahms, Bernstein and Rachmaninow. The entry is free.
On 26 and 27 August four Academy concerts will take place in the Town Hall of Hamburg, also under the baton of Kent Nagano .
Find here further information about those concerts.
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On 22, 23 and 24 June Kent Nagano will conduct the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, whose Honorary Conductor he has been since 2006. On the program will be Mahler’s Symphony No. 2.
The concerts on 22 and 23 June will take place in the Philharmonie Berlin. On 24 June they will be guest in Philharmonie in Munich.
Find here more information about the concerts in Berlin and here about the concert in Munich.
The US-American conductor Kent Nagano will conduct the performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem on 28 June 2018 in Kloster Eberbach instead of the late Enoch zu Guttenberg during the Rheingau Music Festival.
Kent Nagano, General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, has collaborated with the KlangVerwaltung Munich Orchestra several times over the last few years, including 2015 and 2016 at the Vorsprung-Festival of the AUDI Summer Concerts in Ingolstadt, where he was Artistic Director from 2014 until 2016.
Find more information about the concert here.
On 15 and 17 June 2018, Kent Nagano will conduct the Orquesta Nacional de España in Auditorium Nacional del Musica in Madrid. On the program will be Hans Werner Henze’s opera “The Bassarids” (concert version).
Find here further information on the performances.
The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal takes great pride and pleasure in announcing that Maestro Kent Nagano has received the Meritorious Service Medal from Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, during a ceremony held in Montreal this evening. Kent Nagano had the following words in response:
“I am honoured today to receive the Meritorious Service Decorations from the Governor General of Canada Julie Payette. I am proud to collaborate with exceptionally talented musicians and with a top-level Chorus, and I am particularly happy about the inauguration of the Maison symphonique in 2011, the acquisition of the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique*, and the projects and initiatives that bring us closer to the community, such as La musique aux enfants and the Classical Spree. Touring projects and large-scale event openings enable me to contribute to the Orchestra’s stature and influence in Canada, the Great North, the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia. This medal is a recognition I find deeply touching.”
Meritorious Service Decorations are given to recognize people who have brought remarkable contribution, for a determined period, that bring honour to Canada. The Civil Division recognizes a deed or an activity that has been performed in a highly professional manner, or according to a very high standard: often innovative, this deed or activity sets an example for others to follow, improves the quality of life of a community and brings benefit or honour to Canada.
The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Kent Nagano have unveiled the orchestra’s summer concert programming, including the 7th OSM Classical Spree in the end of August.
Click here for the trailer and here for all concert dates with the OSM and Kent Nagano.