Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2007, a relationship now extended to 2015, Marin Alsop is the first woman to head a major American orchestra. Currently Conductor Emeritus of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Laureate of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, since 1992 she has also been Music Director of California’s prize-winning Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. She appears regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic. In addition to engagements with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Zürich Tonhalle, Orchestre de Paris, Munich Philharmonic and La Scala Milan, she performs each season with both the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic and is Artistic Director of The Bernstein Project, scheduled for 2009–10 at London’s Southbank Centre.
Marin Alsop is Musical America’s 2009 Conductor of the Year, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of numerous awards in the United States and Europe. Her extensive discography on Naxos includes Brahms with the London Philharmonic, Bartók, Takemitsu, Weill and Orff with the Bournemouth Symphony, and a series of American music. A Dvořák symphony cycle with the Baltimore Symphony was launched in 2008 with the New World [Naxos 8.570714], which immediately became an international bestseller.
Born in New York City, Marin Alsop attended Yale and the Juilliard School. After winning the Koussevitsky Conducting Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center she became a protégée of Leonard Bernstein.
For more information please visit her website, www.marinalsop.com.
See Marin Alsop’s Naxos interview.
