Marin Alsop
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…
Marin Alsop has been named the Aspen Institute’s Harman/Eisner Artist-in-Residence for 2021-22. In the role, she will draw on her wealth of experience as an artist and thought leader to engage in critical discussions about key social and civic issues, and participate in programming and other activities in Aspen, New York, Washington, D.C., and nationwide. The Aspen…
Applications are now open for the 2022-2024 Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship. The Taki Fellowship is currently a two-year award that primarily includes intensive coaching and mentoring with Marin Alsop and other music industry professionals. The TACF honorarium for Fellows is $20,000 over the two years; other awards are distributed on a merit basis. Also included…
A busy fall begins this September, as Marin Alsop travels to Copenhagen to conduct Brahms’s Piano Concerto no. 1 with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and soloist Jan Lisiecki. Performed at the DR Koncert Huset on September 23 and September 24, the program also includes Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. Next, Alsop travels to Austria to lead the…
Juilliard has announced that trailblazing conductor Marin Alsop (Pre-College ’72; BM ’77, MM ’78, violin) will be the speaker at the 116th commencement ceremony, on June 18 at 11am.The ceremony, which will be held outdoors, will have very limited in-person capacity and will be livestreamed. “I am incredibly proud of the magnitude of what our…
Marin Alsop has been named 2021 Classical Woman of the Year by American Public Media’s Performance Today. The first woman to serve as the head of a major orchestra in the United States, South America, Austria and Britain, Alsop receives the annual award in recognition of her significant contributions to the art form. She will…
This spring, Marin Alsop performs throughout Europe, with the RSO Wien and Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, returning to Baltimore in late May for a celebration of her tenure as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In April, Marin leads the RSO Wien in a performances on April 26 conducting works by Julia Anna…
