Marin Alsop
Watch and listen to five recent highlights, including music at a fraught moment in the Kennedy Center’s history and a passing delight in Tchaikovsky. By Joshua Barone, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, Seth Colter Walls, Zachary Woolfe, and Oussama Zahr March 6, 2025 There was a time in recent memory when a performance of Julia Wolfe’s “Her Story,” for women’s…
The Lorelei Ensemble joined the National Symphony Orchestra for the D.C. premiere of Julia Wolfe’s engrossing oratorio “Her Story.” February 28, 2025 On Thursday night at the Kennedy Center, the National Symphony Orchestra gave the D.C. premiere of Julia Wolfe’s masterfully crafted two-movement piece “Her Story,” in a riveting performance led by Marin Alsop and enhanced by…
Music about bushfires and natural idylls: The US-American conductor has put together an extraordinary program for the Berlin Philharmonic’s Biennale. By Keno-David Schüler February 21, 2025, 2:22 PM What a program Marin Alsop has put together for her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic ! The American conductor could have made it easier for herself. But far from…
By Oussama Zahr. Feb. 12, 2025, 11:30 a.m. ET Conductor Marin Alsop is one of four artists being featured with a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall next season. Carnegie Hall announced its 2025-26 season on Wednesday, with much of it devoted to celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States through a citywide festival featuring…
Alsop makes her Berliner Philharmoniker debut with Biennale “Paradise lost?” Thursday, Feb 20th (8pm), Friday, Feb 21 (8pm), Saturday Feb 22nd (7pm), Philharmonie Berlin, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße 1 The concert is part of “Paradise lost?” Biennale addressing climate change, species extinction, and environmental threats to our planet. As part of this series of events, the Berliner Philharmoniker…
PBS will broadcast Too Hot to Handel on December 17 at 9:30/8:30 CST, captured at its 2023 European premiere at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Marin Alsop leads the BBC Concert Orchestra in an uplifting reinterpretation of this seasonal favorite, as Handel’s masterpiece is infused with gospel, jazz, and R&B. Tune in here. Alsop, with arrangers…
Marin Alsop and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra have received a GRAMMY® nomination for their recording of John Adams’ “City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance.” The album, released in April on Naxos as part of their “American Classics” series, is nominated for the Best Orchestral Performance Award. The 67th…
Newly appointed Principal Guest Conductor Marin Alsop, who has an over 30-year history with the Philadelphia Orchestra that includes performances in Philadelphia; Saratoga Springs, NY; Vail, CO; and at Carnegie Hall, will lead the Orchestra on their first return to China since 2019. The tour will bring concerts and residency activities to Beijing and Tianjin,…
Marin Alsop and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra received a warm reception from Japanese audiences on their recent eleven-city tour of the country, with stops in Yokohama, Tokyo, Takamatsu, Aichi, Fukuoka, Niigata, Nagano, Osaka, Tokorozawa, Sapporo, and Hiroshima. The program included Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, Jessie Montgomery’s Strum, and Mozart’s “Coronation” Concerto, featuring Hayato Sumino….
The 2024-25 season marks Marin Alsop’s sixth as Chief Conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. They launch the season together with a high-profile, eleven-city Japanese tour, appearing in Yokohama, Tokyo, Takamatsu, Aichi, Fukuoka, Niigata, Nagano, Osaka, Tokorozawa, Sapporo, and Hiroshima with a program of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, Jessie Montgomery’s Strum, and Mozart’s “Coronation”…
