Despite flying across the country, starting from his home in Delaware to work with the chamber orchestra, David Amado already feels a kinship with the Eugene arts community. Amado is the new artistic director and conductor of the Oregon Mozart Players , succeeding Kelly Kuo and becoming OMP’s sixth artistic director. He was named to the post last spring, and he will make his formal OMP debut Oct. 18, conducting the program Nomad and Native: Cultural intersections, displacement and identity at Beall Concert Hall at the University of Oregon. For 20 years, starting in 2003, Amado led the Delaware Symphony Orchestra and was so well-regarded that upon leaving the post in 2023, the symphony named him music director laureate, the first in that symphony’s almost 120-year history. The 57-year-o

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