Marin Alsop
Founded by MacArthur award-winning conductor Marin Alsop to promote gender diversity in music and help other women follow in her own pioneering footsteps, the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship (TACF) celebrates its 20th-anniversary season with the TACF Global Concert Series. This sees Mei-Ann Chen, Jeri Lynne Johnson and seven more TACF award recipients conduct orchestral concerts…
As Chief Conductor and Curator of the Ravinia Festival, Alsop returns to lead the Chicago Symphony in five concerts at its summer home. After an Opening Night program of Julia Perry’s Study for Orchestra, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade and Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with Stewart Goodyear (July 15), she and the orchestra present a bucolic pairing of Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony and An Alpine Symphony by…
On Thursday, July 7, the Academic Board of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will award an honorary degree to Marin Alsop for her truly outstanding contributions to her profession and achievements which richly deserve high distinction and recognition. Other honorees include actors Ncuti Gatwa and Sam Heughan, and composer Errollyn Wallen. Professor Jeffrey Sharkey, Principal…
This summer, Marin Alsop looks forward to a transatlantic summer with a variety festivals and performances. In the States, she serves as conductor and Jury Chairperson of the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (June 14–18), helms the Opening Night concert of the Aspen Music Festival (July 1), and continues her ongoing tenure as Chief Conductor and Curator of the Ravinia Festival with…
Filmmaker Bernadette Wegenstein’s The Conductor premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in summer 2021, followed by theatrical screenings this past January and February in New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. The winner of the Naples International Film Festival’s 2021 Focus on the Arts Award, the documentary tells Alsop’s story – from her beginnings as an ambitious nine-year-old…
Both the Ravinia Festival and ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien have announced extensions to Marin Alsop’s contract through 2025. Marin Alsop continues her contract with Ravinia Festival through the summer of 2025 beginning with the creation of the Breaking Barriers Festival, an annual series that celebrates the diverse artists and leaders helping classical music continue to grow…
Marin Alsop begins 2022 with a variety of performances in Europe and the United States. Beginning on January 14, Marin leads the London Philharmonic Orchestra and cellist Kian Soltani for an evening of Barber, Shostakovich, and Brahms. She then travels to Paris for a performance with Soltani and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra on January 21. Closing out…
On January 27, The Conductor begins its theatrical run at Quad Cinema in NYC. The winner of Naples International Film Festival’s 2021 Focus on the Arts Award, the documentary tells Alsop’s story through a combination of intimate interviews, moments from her professional and private life, encounters with cognoscenti in the music world, previously unseen archival footage…
New collaboration with AT&T’s “She’s Connected” program also announced, empowering women with mentorship opportunities Founded by Marin Alsop in 2003 to promote gender diversity in music and help other women follow in her own pioneering footsteps, the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship is pleased to announce its 2022–24 Fellow along with two Associate Fellows and three other award recipients. Receiving the top prize is Anna Duczmal-Mróz, who…
This November brings the release of Marin Alsop’s new Hindemith collection for Naxos, which marks her first recording as Chief Conductor of Austria’s ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. The album captures her interpretations of Paul Hindemith’s works, whose music featured in the first program of her tenure. On their new recording, the central opera of…
