Marin Alsop

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Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop (born October 16, 1956 in New York ) is an American conductor . She has headed the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since the 2007/08 season , making her the first woman to lead a large US orchestra. In 2013, Marin Alsop set another milestone: she was the first woman to conduct the London Last Night of the Proms .

Life

Marin Alsop has a son with the horn player Kristin Jurkscheit.

Professional background

education

Marin Alsop graduated from Yale University and received her Masters from the Juilliard School .

Marin Alsop as a conductor

Her career as a conductor began in 1989 when she won a prize at the New York Leopold Stokowski Competition, studied with her mentor Leonard Bernstein and with Seiji Ozawa and Gustav Meier , and in the same year received the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize in Tanglewood .

From 2002 to 2008 she was chief conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra , from 2012 to 2019 chief conductor of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra .

She has headed the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since the 2007/08 season , making her the first woman to lead a large US orchestra. Her position was confirmed through 2021.

Since September 2019 she has been chief conductor of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna (RSO), taking over from Cornelius Meister .

Guest Conductor

Marin Alsop is a regular guest with the New York Philharmonic , Philadelphia Orchestra , Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra . She is also one of the few guest conductors invited each season by both the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra . She has performed with many important orchestras around the world, including the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich , the Orchester de Paris , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Boston and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra . In recent seasons she has conducted alongside the London Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in Germany a. a. the Munich Philharmonic , the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , the NDR Symphony Orchestra , the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra .

In September 2006 she conducted the world premiere of Nicholas Maw's opera Sophie's Choice at the Washington Opera. She made her debut at the St. Louis Opera in 2004 with John Adams ' Nixon in China and in the same year conducted the production of Bernstein's Candide with the New York Philharmonic, which was nominated for an Emmy in 2005.

In collaboration with the Naxos label, there are recordings of Johannes Brahms ' symphonies with the London Philharmonic and an ongoing series of recordings with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, including Béla Bartók's The Wonderful Mandarin , Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and the symphonies by Kurt Weill are located.

On September 7, 2013, Alsop became the first female conductor to conduct the Last Night of the Proms in London . On September 12, 2015 she conducted the Last Night of the Proms again at the Royal Albert Hall , also in 2016.

Since 2020 she has been artist in residence at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , and the first woman to teach orchestral conducting at the Vienna University of Music in the more than 200-year history.

Awards (selection)

In 2002 she received the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for conductors (“Conductor Award”), in 2003 she was the winner of the “Artist of the Year” award from The Gramophone magazine , and in 2005 she received the “Classical Brit Award for Best Female Artist” " excellent. In 2006 she received the "BBC Radio 3 Listeners Award" from the Royal Philharmonic Society.

Alsop has been a MacArthur Foundation scholarship holder since 2005 , the first time a conductor has received this prestigious award, particularly in the USA. In addition, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008, and to the American Philosophical Society in 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Marin Alsop  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rosie Pentreath: 19 of today's top women conductors. Can you name the best female conductors working today? http://www.classical-music.com , March 6, 2015, accessed July 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ Marin Alsop renews contract with São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. In: Gramophone . April 15, 2015 .;
  3. ↑ a b Marin Alsop. In: bsomusic.org. Retrieved July 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ orf.at: Marin Alsop becomes chief conductor of the RSO . Article dated January 29, 2018, accessed January 29, 2018.
  5. ^ Fiona Maddocks: Marin Alsop, conductor of Last Night of the Proms, on sexism in classical music . In: The Guardian . September 6, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
  6. ↑ mdw.ac.at: Conductor Marin Alsop takes up residency at the mdw . Press release of March 6, 2020, accessed on March 8, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Alsop, Marin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American conductor
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH new York