Marin Alsop
Conducting, Distinguished Visiting Artist
Marin Alsop recently made history with her appointment as music director of the Baltimore Symphony beginning in 2007-08. She will be the first woman to head a major American orchestra, which mirrors her ongoing success in the U.K. as principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony since 2002. She has also been named a 2005 MacArthur Fellow, the first conductor to receive this award.
The first artist to win Gramophone's Artist of the Year award and the Royal Philharmonic Society's Conductor's Award in the same season, Marin Alsop also won the Classical Brit Award for Best Female Artist of 2005. In 2006 she was honored at the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards in London when she won the BBC Radio 3 Listener's Award.
Ms. Alsop is a regular guest conductor with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. She is also one of the few conductors to appear every season with both the London Symphony and the London Philharmonic orchestras and has appeared as a guest conductor with many other distinguished orchestras worldwide.
Ms. Alsop's fully staged production of Bernstein's Candide with the New York Philharmonic in 2004, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2005. In September 2006, she made her Washington Opera debut in the U.S. premiere of Nicholas Maw's opera Sophie's Choice.
A native of New York City, Marin Alsop attended Yale University and received her master's degree from the Juilliard School. In 1989 her conducting career was launched when she was a prizewinner at the Leopold Stokowski International Conducting Competition in New York and in the same year was awarded the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize at the Tanglewood Music Center, where she was a pupil of Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, and Gustav Meier.
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