BIOGRAPHY
In September 2007, Marin Alsop made history with her appointment as the 12th music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the first woman to head a major American orchestra. This mirrored her ongoing success in the United Kingdom where she was Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony from 2002-08 and is now Conductor Emeritus. Ms. Alsop also continues her association as Conductor Laureate of the Colorado Symphony following 12 years as Music Director, and since 1992 has been Music Director of California's acclaimed Cabrillo Festival which has won the coveted ASCAP award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music every single year since her appointment.

Marin at age 3, l earning to play the violin
Marin at age three, learning to
play the violin

The first artist to win both Gramophone's "Artist of the Year" award and the Royal Philharmonic Society's Conductor's Award in the same season, Alsop was named to a MacArthur Fellowship (the first conductor to receive this prestigious American honor) and won the Classical Brit Award for Best Female Artist that year. She has also received the Royal Philharmonic Society's BBC Radio 3 Listeners Award and a European Women of Achievement Award, and in Autumn 2008 will be inducted as a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ms. Alsop is a regular guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic. She is also one of the few conductors to appear every season with both the London Symphony and the London Philharmonic, and has conducted many other distinguished orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle, Orchestre de Paris, Bavarian Radio Symphony and La Scala Milan.

With her Mother, Ruth Alsop, a cellist with the New York City Ballet Orchestra
With her Mother, Ruth Alsop,
a cellist with the New York
City Ballet Orchestra
One of Alsop's first projects as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony is a Dvořák cycle for Naxos. This joins an extensive Naxos discography which includes, notably, a Brahms symphony cycle with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and an ongoing series of Bournemouth Symphony CDs of music by Bartok, Bernstein, Orff, and several living American composers. Alsop can also be heard regularly as a commentator on NPR's Weekend Edition segment "Marin on Music", and on BBC's Radio 3.

In 2006, Alsop was the only classical musician invited to attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, alongside presidents, prime ministers and CEOs of the world's most powerful companies. She has been profiled in Time and Newsweek, appeared on NBC's Today Show, and was featured as ABC News's "Person of the Week". Marin Alsop is a native of New York City; she attended Yale University and received her Master's Degree from The Juilliard School.

 

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Please check Marin's schedule page for her complete list of upcoming performance and broadcast events.
   
Sep 12, 08 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra "Run-out" Program in Havre de Grace, MD
Sep 13, 08 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Gala Celebration Concert With Yo-Yo Ma TCHAIKOVSKY Rococo Variations Three Meditations from BERNSTEIN's Mass
Sep 18, 08 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with Evelyn Glennie Venue: Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall WAGNER: Finale from Gotterdammerung DAUGHERTY: UFO HOLST: The Planets

 

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The BSO made musical history on July 20, 2005 when it officially announced the appointment of Marin Alsop as its next Music Director, making her the first female conductor of a major American orchestra.
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Under Marin's leadership since 1992, this festival has been described as "two of the most thoughtful and original summer musical weekends anywhere in America."
Taki Concorida Fellowship Founded by Marin Alsop in 2002, the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship (TCCF) is a unique opportunity for young women conductors to immerse themselves in the art and business of performing classical music under the leadership of Marin Alsop.
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