Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop has been Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2007, a relationship now extended to 2015. Currently Conductor Emeritus of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Laureate of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, since 1992 she has also been Music Director of California’s prize-winning Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. She appears regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic. In addition to engagements with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Zürich Tonhalle, Orchestre de Paris, Munich Philharmonic and La Scala Milan, she performs each season with both the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic and in 2009–2010 was Artistic Director of The Bernstein Project, at London’s Southbank Centre.

Marin Alsop was Musical America’s 2009 Conductor of the Year, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of numerous awards in the United States and Europe. Her extensive discography on Naxos includes Brahms with the London Philharmonic, Bartók, Takemitsu, Weill and Orff with the Bournemouth Symphony, and a series of American music. A Dvořák symphony cycle with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra launched in 2008 with the ‘New World,’ immediately an international bestseller.

Born in New York City, Marin Alsop attended Yale and the Juilliard School. After winning the Koussevitsky Conducting Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center she became a protégée of Leonard Bernstein.

Marin Alsop’s acclaimed Naxos recordings of Samuel Barber’s Orchestral Music has been released in a 6-CD boxed set (Naxos 8506021 (Amazon ASIN code: B003VC51S0)).