Marin Alsop is chief conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, which she leads at Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, and on recordings, broadcasts and tours. She is chief conductor and curator of Chicago’s Ravinia Festival where she conducts the Chicago Symphony’s summer residencies.
She is music director laureate of the Baltimore Symphony and founded the orchestra’s OrchKids education programme. In 2020 she was appointed music director of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival at the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
She is conductor of honour of Brazil’s São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP). Alsop has longstanding relationships with the London Philharmonic and London Symphony orchestras, and guest conducts, among others, London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris.
Her discography includes acclaimed Naxos recordings of symphonies by Brahms with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Dvořák with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Prokofiev with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestras. The first and only conductor to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, Alsop also received the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award and was the first woman to conduct the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. She is director of graduate conducting at the Peabody Institute and holds honorary doctorates from Yale University and The Juilliard School. In 2002 she founded the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, which was renamed in her honour as the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship in 2020.
For more information, visit www.marinalsop.com.
Entrevista com a maestrina Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop: La dama de la batuta
A Requiem in Reverse?: Marin Alsop talks to Jeremy Siepmann
Discovering Bartók: Marin Alsop talks to Jeremy Siepmann
Swing That Beat: Marin Alsop talks to Jeremy Siepmann
See Marin Alsop’s Naxos interview