10 Lessons of my Life

For his 70th birthday, renowned conductor Kent Nagano published a personal memoir, "10 Lessons of my Life" (Berlin Verlag 2021). In it, he documented encounters that shaped him: from Björk he learned to take coincidences seriously, from Frank Zappa authenticity, from Yvonne Loriod the freedom that absolute precision enables.

Now Nagano turns 75 - and in Göttingen the question arises: what encounters have come since then? And how does it feel to conduct the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España in Madrid, which Nagano takes over in September 2026?

A conversation with co-author Inge Kloepfer about learning from human encounters.