This article is about the orchestral conductor. For the city in Japan, please see Nagano. __FORCETOC__Kent Nagano (born November 22, 1951) is an American conductor and opera administrator. Biography Nagano was born in Berkeley, California, while his parents were in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. He grew up in Morro Bay. 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. His 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. In January 2007, it was announced that he will step down from this position in 2009. During his tenure in Berkeley, Na

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