ALSOP, MARIN (b 1956 )
"Alsop keeps the music moving, but also clarifies the underlying rhythm quite splendidly.. This is very good Brahms conducting.. I'm more than happy to recommend this superb new recording as strongly as possible."
– ClassicsToday on 8.557430 BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3
Marin Alsop is Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony from the 2007/08 season – the first woman to head a major American orchestra. She has been Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra since 2002.
She won the Royal Philharmonic Society Conductor of the Year award in 2002 and Radio 3 Listeners’ Award in 2006, and was named The Gramophone magazine’s Artist of the Year in 2003.
She regularly conducts the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and recent guest engagements include the Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Marin Alsop studied at Yale and at the Juilliard School and won the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize at Tanglewood, where she studied with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Her recordings for Naxos include the Brahms Symphonies and Overtures with the London Philharmonic, the complete orchestral works of Samuel Barber with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and many acclaimed recordings with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, notably Carmina Burana (8.570033) and works by Adams (8.559031), Bernstein, Glass (8.559202), Takemitsu (8.557760), Weill (8.557481) and Bartók (8.557433).
For more information please visit her website, www.marinalsop.com.
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