长野健 Kent Nagano

长野健（Kent Nagano, 又译“肯特中野”1951-），日裔美籍著名指挥家。曾任 里昂 国立歌剧院音乐总监（1988-1998）、德国柏林国家交响乐团首席指挥（2000-2006）。现任加拿大 蒙特利尔交响乐团 音乐总监（2006年起），兼任巴伐利亚国家歌剧院音乐总监（2006年-2013年）。
长野健1951年11月12日生于 美国 加利福尼亚州伯克利市郊农场,祖家从日本移民到美国,同时接受日本和西方传统教育.4岁开始学钢琴。1984年12月,在仅有一日准备之下,而且事前没有任何排练就上台指挥 波士顿 交响乐团演出 马勒 《第九交响曲》,长野健这种救急之才,令人刮目相看.次年,他获得第一届全美艺术天才大奖,取得75000美元奖金,有机会追随 小泽征尔 、 布莱兹 、伯恩斯坦、 海丁克 以及 阿巴多 ,深造指挥技巧,集思广益,博采众长.之后,他在巴黎歌剧院担任小泽征尔的副手,指挥《圣方济》的世界首演. 梅西昂 的《我主基督之变形》在 美国 首演便是由他指挥演出,阿当斯的《克林霍弗之死》(Death of Kinghoffer)也由他在布鲁塞尔、 里昂 及维也纳指挥世界性首演.在 洛杉矶 指挥演出 魏尔 ()的《马哈哥尼》(Mahagonny)和阿当斯《尼克松在中国》、在 旧金山 指挥演出 米约 的《 哥伦布 》,成为擅长演绎当代音乐的年轻 指挥家 ,受到国际乐坛的好评.
1989年,长野健被委任为里昂歌剧院音乐总监，翌年又被任命为伦敦交响乐团助理首席指挥。1991年9月,长野健出任英国哈勒乐团总监，同时兼任美国加州伯克利交响乐团音乐总监。1993年他在里昂歌剧院指挥演出重新制作的奥芬巴赫《霍夫曼的故事》和世界首演的德彪西《罗德里戈与奇梅涅》。次年他在纽约大都会歌剧院指挥演出普朗克《加尔默罗会修女》。同年又在萨尔茨堡音乐节指挥演出斯特拉文斯基《俄狄浦斯王》和《诗篇交响曲》等,都受到称赞。1977年长野健首次指挥柏林爱乐乐团，2000年长野健指挥了当年的柏林森林音乐会，上演“节奏与舞韵”之夜，曲目单中还包括了我国著名作曲家赵季平创作的组曲《霸王别姬》——值得一提的是，这是柏林爱乐乐团迄今唯一一次上演中国作曲家的作品。
2000年，长野健接替俄罗斯著名指挥家阿什肯纳齐出任柏林国家交响乐团首席指挥，六年里他带领乐团举办了一系列演出，包括了从贝多芬到勋伯格作品的音乐会，受到广泛好评。2006年，长野健接替瑞士传奇指挥迪图瓦，出任加拿大蒙特利尔交响乐团。
在小泽征尔的努力下，日本在古典音乐领域逐渐在世界上占有了一席之地，之后的发展则一发而不可收，涉及范围从古典浪漫一直拓展到巴洛克和近现代，在演奏、演唱、指挥等各个方面，都拥有了世界一流水准的音乐艺术家，其中在指挥领域最著名的当属长野健和铃木雅明等人，其中后者是日本 巴赫 协会乐团的灵魂人物，对于巴赫的音乐有着不同于欧洲的独特阐释，而长野健则是在小泽征尔的基础上，发展出更具个性化的指挥风格，或者说更加欧化。

Kent George Nagano (born November 22, 1951) is an American conductor and opera administrator. He has been the music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra since 2006 and is general music director of the Hamburg State Opera since 2015 through 2020. Early life and education Nagano was born in Berkeley, California, while his parents were in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Sansei, which means that he is a third generation Japanese-American. He grew up in Morro Bay, a city located on the Central Coast of California in San Luis Obispo County. He studied sociology and music at the University of California, Santa Cruz. After graduation he moved to San Francisco State University to study music. While there, he took composition courses from Grosvenor Cooper and Roger Nixon. He also studied at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Career In Oper für Alle, Munich, 2010 Nagano's first conducting job was with the Opera Company of Boston, where he was assistant conductor to Sarah Caldwell. In 1978, he became the conductor of the Berkeley Symphony, his first music directorship. He stepped down from this position in 2009.During his tenure in Berkeley, Nagano became a champion of the music of Olivier Messiaen and initiated a correspondence with him. He was later invited to work with Messiaen on the final stages of his opera Saint François d'Assise in Paris, where he lived with Messiaen and his wife Yvonne Loriod, whom he came to regard as his "European parents". In 1982, Nagano conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in several of Frank Zappa's completely orchestral compositions for the first time. Nagano recorded several of Zappa's pieces on the issue London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1, where Zappa had personally chosen Nagano to conduct the orchestra. Nagano described this as "my first chance, my first real break".In 1984, while assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he stepped in for Seiji Ozawa on short notice and without rehearsal, receiving acclaim from the audience, orchestra, and Boston Globe critic Richard Dyer for a "noble performance"of Mahler's Ninth Symphony. Beginning in 1985, Nagano was the Music Director of the Ojai Music Festival four separate times, the last in 2004, and once alongside Stephen Mosko in 1986. Nagano was music director of the Opéra de Lyon from 1988–1998, where he recorded, with the Lyon National Opera Orchestra and chorus, numerous works by Busoni (Doktor Faust, Arlecchino and Turandot), Stravinsky (The Rake's Progress), Offenbach (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Debussy (world premiere of Rodrigue et Chimène), Canteloube (Chants d'Auvergne), Berlioz (La Damnation de Faust), Carlisle Floyd (Susannah), Richard Strauss (The French version of Salomé, the original version of Ariadne auf Naxos), Peter Eötvös (Trois Soeurs), Massenet (Werther), Delibes (Coppelia), Poulenc (Dialogues des Carmélites), Ravel (orchestral works), and Weill (Seven Deadly Sins). Nagano served as principal conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester from 1992-1999. During his tenure, Nagano received criticism for his expensive and ambitious programming, as well as his conducting fees.However, poor financial management at the orchestra separately contributed to the fiscal troubles of the orchestra. His contract was not renewed after 1999. Nagano became principal conductor and artistic director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in 2000, and served in this position until 2006. He made a number of recordings with the orchestra, including music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Bruckner, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Gustav Mahler. Nagano became principal conductor of the Los Angeles Opera (LA Opera) with the 2001-2002 season. In May 2003, Nagano was named the LA Opera's first music director, and he retained this position through 2006. He has been a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival, where he premiered Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin in 2000. He also conducted the world premiere of John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer at la Monnaie in Brussels. In 2006, Nagano became the music director of both the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) and the Bavarian State Opera. His contract with the Bavarian State Opera did not allow him to be the music director of another opera company. He concluded his Bavarian State Opera tenure in 2013.With the OSM, he has conducted commercial recordings for such labels as ECM New Series and Analekta. His current contract with the OSM is through 2016.He is also one of the Russian National Orchestra's Conductor Collegium. In August 2012, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra announced the appointment of Nagano as its principal guest conductor and artistic advisor, as of the 2013-2014 season, with an initial contract of 3 years.In September 2012, the Hamburg State Opera announced the appointment of Nagano as its next Generalmusikdirektor (General Music Director) and Chefdirigent (chief conductor), effective with the 2015-2016 season., with an initial contract through the 2019-2020 season. Personal life Nagano is married to pianist Mari Kodama,and they have one daughter.[citation needed] Honors Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award in 1985 Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, 2008 Wilhelm Furtwängler Prize 2010, Beethovenfest Bonn Selected discography Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Jean-Pascal Beintus: Wolf Tracks. Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, Kent Nagano, Sophia Loren, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186011 (2003). Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto & Piano Concerto. Christian Tetzlaff, Nikolai Lugansky, Kent Nagano, Russian National Orchestra PENTATONE PTC 5186022 (2003) Frédéric Chopin, Carl Loewe - Piano Concertos. Mari Kodama, Kent Nagano. Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186026 (2003)