![]() ![]() ![]() In 2016 she stood down as Music Director of California’s Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, where for 25 years she had built a devoted audience for new symphonic music by living composers and worked to promote the careers of both prominent and up-and-coming composers. Since August 2015 she has been Director of Graduate Conducting at the Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University. In 2007 she was one of eight conductors of UK orchestras to endorse the 10-year classical music manifesto, “Building on Excellence: Orchestras for the 21st century”, which gave free entry to a classical music concert to all British schoolchildren as part of its drive to increase the presence of classical music in the UK. In 2005 she became the first conductor to receive a MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowship, a prize awarded annually to citizens or residents of the United States who have shown ‘extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction’. She is also the principal conductor and music director of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, arranging its 2012 European tour and first-ever appearance at The Proms in August 2012 and again in August 2016. In 2007 she was appointed the twelfth music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the first female to hold such a position with any major American orchestra. Her conducting career was launched when, in 1989, she was a prize-winner at the Leopold Stokowski International Conducting Competition and in the same year was the first woman to be awarded the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center, where she was a pupil of Leonard Bernstein. Marin Alsop, BMus (Julliard), MMus (Julliard), Hon DMus (Bournemouth)Īmerican conductor and violinist Marin Alsop is an inspiring and powerful voice in the international music scene, recognised worldwide for her innovative approach to programming and for her deep commitment to education and to the development of audiences of all ages. ![]()
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