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A conversation with Grammy Award-winning conductor, Kent Nagano and daughter Karin Kei Nagano

Karin Kei Nagano (left) and her father Kent Nagano
Thomas Wilmer

A conversation with Grammy Award-winning conductor, Kent Nagano and his daughter Karin Kei Nagano. Nagano grew up in Morro Bay, California and graduated from U.C. Berkeley. 

Nagano’s stellar career includes conducting stints with the Opera Company of Boston, the Berkeley Symphony, the London Symphony Orchestra, Music Director with the Ojai Music Festival, the Los Angeles Opera, and the Russian National Orchestra’s Conductor Collegium, Deutsches-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and Music Director, Opéra National de Lyon. Since 2006 Nagano has been the Music Director for both the Montreal Symphony and the Hamburg State Opera. Karin Kei Nagano is a passionate pianist in addition to her current studies as an undergraduate architecture student at Yale.

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Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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