Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop ( born October 16, 1956 in New York) is an American conductor. She stands in front since the 2007/08 season the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and thus initiates the first woman to a great American orchestra.

Life

Marin Alsop attended Yale University and received her master's degree from the Juilliard School. 1989 began her career as a conductor when she was an award winner at the New York Leopold Stokowski Competition, studied with her ​​mentor, Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa and Gustav Meier at and received the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize in the same year, at Tanglewood. Together with the horn player Kristin Jurkschat log she has a son.

From 2002 to 2008 she was conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Musical collaborations

Marin Alsop is a regular guest at the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. It is also one of the few guest conductors who will be invited each season from both the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She entered the world on with many major orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Orchestre de Paris, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Boston and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent seasons, she conducted alongside the London Philharmonic, the Chicago and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Germany, inter alia, the Munich Philharmonic, the NDR Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne.

In September 2006, she directed the world premiere of Nicholas Maw's opera Sophie 's Choice at the Opera Washington. Her debut at the Opera St. Louis they were in 2004 with John Adams ' Nixon in China and directed the production of Bernstein's Candide with the New York Philharmonic in the same year, which was nominated in 2005 for an Emmy. Since 2012, she also conducts the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra.

In cooperation with the Naxos label are recordings of Johannes Brahms ' symphonies with the London Philharmonic and an ongoing series of recordings with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, under which, for example, Béla Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, or the symphonies of Kurt Weill are emerged.

On September 7, 2013 Alsop was the first conductor who led the London Last Night of the Proms.

Awards

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

Since 2005, Alsop is a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, the first time was a conductor this especially in the U.S. prestigious award.