Marin Alsop
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”…
As Chief Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s annual residency at the Ravinia Festival, Marin Alsop returns to Highland Park for another summer of innovative programming that includes six festival programs (July 10–27). On her first night, Alsop brings together 100 young musicians from around the world for the second National Seminario Ravinia, featuring her…
On May 9, Marin Alsop was a featured guest speaker at the 2024 Groundbreaking Women Summit hosted by Worth Media Group at SAP in Hudson Yards. Alongside a host of industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and change-makers, Alsop joined Worth to talk about how she pioneered her path in classical music, and how she is working to…
Marin Alsop returns to Ravinia this summer to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in three weeks of performances as the festival’s chief conductor. On July 12, Alsop and the CSO open their summer residency with an all-American program featuring works by Copland, Johnson, Barber, and Gershwin. Additional festival highlights include performances of Beethoven’s Fifth (July…
Alsop reunited with Yunchan Lim and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra this month for performances of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, on a program that also included Ives’s Symphony No. 2 and Carlos Simon’s AMEN! In 2022, Alsop conducted then 18-year-old Lim when he became the youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition,…
Marin Alsop’s April 23 debut at The Metropolitan Opera, conducting the company premiere of John Adams’s El Niño, is a critically acclaimed triumph. The New York Times raves: “Alsop’s musical interpretation beautifully suits the production concept….[she] kept the rhythm insistent but chose a slightly slow tempo, loosening the tight weave of the instrumental parts and…
On April 23, Alsop makes her highly anticipated Met Opera debut conducting the company premiere of John Adams’s El Niño (April 23–May 17). The cast of director Lileana Blain-Cruz’s production includes soprano Julia Bullock, bass-baritone Davóne Tines, and J’Nai Bridges and Daniela Mack alternating the mezzo-soprano role. During this time, Alsop also heads to Baltimore…
