ALSOP, MARIN (b 1956 )

Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2007, a relationship now extended to 2015, Marin Alsop is the first woman to head a major American orchestra. 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 is Artistic Director of The Bernstein Project, scheduled for 2009–10 at London’s Southbank Centre.

Marin Alsop is 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 was launched in 2008 with the New World [Naxos 8.570714], which immediately became 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.

For more information please visit her website, www.marinalsop.com.

See Marin Alsop’s Naxos interview.

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
A TO Z OF CLASSICAL MUSIC (The) (3rd Expanded Edition, 2009)	8.558212-13
ADAGIO CHILLOUT	8.556783
ADAMS, J.: Nixon in China (Orth, Kanyova, Hammons, Heller, Opera Colorado Chorus, Colorado Symphony, Alsop)	8.669022-24
ADAMS: Shaker Loops / Wound Dresser / Short Ride in a Fast Machine	8.559031
AMERICAN CLASSICS SAMPLER	8.559118
AMERICAN SALUTE (AN) - SPIRIT OF THE NATION	8.559147
Artist Profile Series - VAN RAAT, Ralph	8.578026
BARBER (Eternal)	8.572133
BARBER: Capricorn Concerto / A Hand of Bridge / Canzonetta / Intermezzo	8.559135
BARBER: Cello Concerto / Medea Suite / Adagio for Strings	8.559088
BARBER: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 / Essays for Orchestra Nos. 2 and 3	8.559134
BARBER: Piano Concerto / Die Natali / Medea's Meditation	8.559133
BARBER: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Essay for Orchestra No. 1	8.559024
BARBER: Violin Concerto / Serenade for Strings / Souvenirs	8.559044
BARTOK: Bela Bartok - A Portrait (JOHNSON)	8.558200-01
BARTOK: Bluebeard's Castle	8.660928
BARTOK: Miraculous Mandarin (The) (Complete Ballet) / Hungarian Pictures / Dance Suite	5.110088
BARTOK: Miraculous Mandarin (The) (Complete Ballet) / Hungarian Pictures / Dance Suite	6.110088
BARTOK: Miraculous Mandarin (The) (Complete Ballet) / Hungarian Pictures / Dance Suite	8.557433
BARTOK: Wooden Prince (The)	8.570534
BERNSTEIN, L.: Mass (Sykes, Wulfman, Morgan State University Choir, Peabody Children's Chorus, Baltimore Symphony, Alsop)	8.559622-23
BERNSTEIN: Chichester Psalms / On the Waterfront	8.559177
BERNSTEIN: Serenade / Facsimile / Divertimento	8.559245
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 / Tragic Overture / Academic Festival Overture	5.110077
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 / Tragic Overture / Academic Festival Overture	6.110077
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 / Tragic Overture / Academic Festival Overture	8.557428
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 / Hungarian Dances	8.557429
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3 / Haydn Variations	8.557430
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 / Hungarian Dances Nos. 2, 4-9 (orch. Breiner)	8.570233
CLASSICS GO TO WAR	8.570154-55
COPLAND, A.: Dance Symphony / Symphony No. 1 / Short Symphony (Bournemouth Symphony, Alsop)	8.559359
DAUGHERTY: Philadelphia Stories / UFO	8.559165
DISCOVER FILM MUSIC	8.558210-11
Discover Music of the Twentieth Century	8.558168-69
DISCOVER THE SYMPHONY (2008 edition)	8.558208-09
DVORAK, A.: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" / Symphonic Variations (Alsop)	8.570714
EXPLORE AMERICA	8.559187
GLASS, P.: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3	8.559202
GLASS: Symphony No. 4, 'Heroes' / The Light	8.559325
Gramophone Awards 2000	8.555303
HARRIS: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4	8.559227
HENLEY, D.: More Famous Composers (Alsop, USA) (Unabridged)	NA242212
HENLEY, D.: Story of Classical Music (The) (Unabridged)	NA331012
HENLEY, D: Famous Composers (Alsop, USA) (Unabridged)	NA236812
HERSCH: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 / Fracta / Arrache	8.559281
KLASSIK HIGHLIGHTS - Music for the 20th Anniversary of Naxos	8.550020
MUSIC TO DIE FOR	8.557411
NAXOS 15TH ANNIVERSARY CD	8.555964
ORFF: Carmina Burana	8.570033
PANDA CLASSICS - Issue Nos. 1-3 (3CD box set)	8.503204
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: PIONEERS OF AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC	8.559200
SONIC REBELLION - Alternative Classical Collection	8.570760
STORY OF AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC (THE)	8.558164-65
STRINGS (Eternal)	8.578027
TAKEMITSU: Orchestral Works	8.557760
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4 / Romeo and Juliet	8.555714
TORKE: Rapture / An American Abroad / Jasper	8.559167
WEILL: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Lady in the Dark - Symphonic Nocturne	8.557481