Marin Alsop has been Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony since 2007 and was Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from 2002 to 2008 (now Conductor Emeritus).
She won the Royal Philharmonic Society Conductor of the Year award in 2002 and Radio 3 Listeners’ Award in 2006, and was named The Gramophone magazine’s Artist of the Year in 2003. She regularly conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras. Recent guest engagements in Europe include the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris and La Scala Milan.
Marin Alsop studied at Yale and at the Juilliard School and won the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize at Tanglewood, where she studied with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Her recordings for Naxos include Brahms’s Symphonies and Overtures with the London Philharmonic, the complete orchestral works of Samuel Barber with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and many acclaimed recordings with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, notably Carmina Burana (Naxos 8.570033) and works by Adams (Naxos 8.559031), Bernstein and Bartók (Naxos 8.557433).
Her recordings of the Brahms Symphonies have gained high critical praise for their “tremendous power”, “conviction”, “dazzling brass”, “sense of impetus”; The Sunday Times acclaimed the cycle as “triumphant”. (Symphony No. 1 / Tragic Overture / Academic Festival Overture - Naxos 8.557428; Symphony No. 2 / Hungarian Dances – Naxos 8.557429; Symphony No. 3 / Haydn Variations – Naxos 8.557430; Symphony No. 4 / Hungarian Dances Nos. 2, 4-9 - Naxos 8.570233)
The first disc of her Dvořák cycle, Symphony No. 9 and the Symphonic Variations, with the Baltimore Symphony has also received widespread critical acclaim (Naxos 8.570714).
Marin Alsop was named Conductor of the Year for 2009 at the Musical America Awards.
For more information please visit her website, www.marinalsop.com.
