The child of two world-class musicians, pianist Karin Kei Nagano made her performance debut as a child and her first album in her mid-teens. She has been highly visible as a soloist at festivals and with major orchestras. Nagano has recorded for the Analekta and Challenge Classics labels. In 2024, she was heard with her mother, aunt, and father on a recording of double and triple concertos by Mozart and Poulenc.
Nagano was born in Berkeley, California, in 1998. Her father, third-generation Japanese American Kent Nagano, was the longtime conductor of the Berkeley Symphony Orch...