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Marin Alsop (/ ˈ m ær ɪ n ˈ ɔː l s ə p /; born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor, the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
The first woman to serve as the head of a major orchestra in the United States, South America, Austria and Britain, she is, as the New York Times put it, not only “a formidable musician and a powerful communicator” but also “a conductor with a vision.”.
The Conductor takes the audience into the heart of classical music, and into the soul of one of its top artists, the internationally renowned conductor Marin Alsop — the first woman to serve as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra — giving us backstage ...
May 6, 2024 · The conductor Marin Alsop, seen here during the curtain call for John Adams’s “El Niño” at the Metropolitan Opera, has ambitions to lead another American orchestra. Nina Westervelt for The ...
May 7, 2024 · Marin Alsop (born October 16, 1956, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American conductor who, as the musical director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (2007–21), Maryland, was the first woman to lead a major American orchestra.
- Robert Rauch
Sep 8, 2023 · Marin Alsop is one of the 21st century’s greatest conductors, with a long list of accomplishments both on and off the podium to back up this worthy title. In 2007 Alsop became the first woman conductor to be made the music director of a major American orchestra.
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Jun 11, 2021 · As Marin Alsop leaves the Baltimore Symphony after 14 years, the field is taking a step backward: 25 major American orchestras, no female music directors.