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Alsop pursues an active guest conducting schedule on three continents. In
North America, recent and upcoming appearances include the Philadelphia
Orchestra, National Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra and Los Angeles
Philharmonic, in addition to the symphonies of San Francisco, Detroit,
Atlanta, Houston, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Vancouver and
Toronto, among others. International engagements include the London
Sinfonia at the Barbican, l'Orchestre de Paris, Toulouse National Orchestra,
Netherlands Philharmonic, Royal Scottish national Orchestra, Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic, Radio Symphony of Frankfurt, Sydney Symphony and the
Dusseldorf Philharmonic, as well as a tour of Norway and Germany with the
Deutsch Kammerphilharmonie.
Alsop now celebrates her eighth season as Music Director of Cabrillo Music
Festival. She joins a long succession of directors dedicated to
contemporary symphonic music in America: Gerhard Samuel (1963-68), composer
Carlos Chavez (1969-73), conductor Dennis Russell Davies (1974-1990) and
American composer John Adams (1991).
A champion of American music, Alsop founded Concordia in 1984, a unique
chamber symphony which combines classical repertoire with American jazz and
20th-century works. Concordia's debut recording on Angel Records features
the world premiere recording of Gershwin's chamber opera, Blue
Monday. A
recent CD on Musicmasters, "Victory Stride," premieres the symphonic
music of jazz great James P. Johnson. Other recordings include a Warner
Brothers release with violinist Mark O'Conner, and a debut CD on the RCA Red
Seal label with the Colorado Symphony featuring works of Christopher Rouse.
In 1988 and 1989, Alsop was the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein
Conducting Fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center, where she studied with
Mr. Bernstein Seiji Ozawa and Gustav Meier. While there, she was awarded
the coveted Koussevitzky Conducting Prize, the only woman in Tanglewood's
history to receive that honor. Also in 1989, she was a prize winner at the
Leopold Stokowski International Conducting Competition in New York.
An avid jazz violinist, Marin Alsop is the founder and leader of
"String Fever," a 14-piece swing band which has released a CD,
"Fever Pitch," on the Koch International label. She attended Yale
University and received her Master's Degree from the Juilliard School.
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