Career
From 1981 to 1999 he served as the chief conductor of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. He was a professor of conducting at the Ljubljana Academy of Music and the artistic leader of the Slovene Octet in its most productive years. Nanut has been collaborating with over 200 orchestras and had made over 200 records with different labels.
Among the concerts that he values most is a concert with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra in the Carnegie Hall, his concerts with Staatskapelle Dresden, with the Berlin Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor and with Saint St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
He was a chief conductor of the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and conducted nearly all Italian symphony orchestras (especially Orchestra Di Padova e Delegate Veneto). Especially prized are his interpretations of Mahler"s symphonies.