Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop recently made history with her appointment as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony beginning in 2007/8. 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 just been named a 2005 MacArthur Fellow, the first conductor ever to receive this most prestigious American 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, including the Orchestre de Paris, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic. Her 2005-06 season includes debuts with the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Gurzenich Cologne, Tonhalle Zurich and the Boston Symphony. Ms. Alsop made her debut with the Opera Theater of St. Louis conducting John Adams' Nixon in China and conducted a fully staged production of Bernstein's CANDIDE with the New York Philharmonic in 2004, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2005. After a highly successful 12 year tenure as Music Director of the Colorado Symphony Ms. Alsop continues her association as Conductor Laureate; she also continues in her 14th season as Music Director of the highly acclaimed Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in California. She has also held the position of Principal Guest Conductor of both the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the City of London Sinfonia.