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Whether championing American composers such as Corigliano and
Rouse around the world, conducting the Brahms Requiem with the Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment on authentic instruments or bringing
fresh insights to the symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich
and Mahler, Alsop's rare talent for communication, her passionate
sense of discovery, and her clear, fluid technique have won her
respect and admiration on both sides of the Atlantic
Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Britain
since September 2002, Marin Alsop has already made an enormous impact
on audiences in the region and nationwide, through her appearances
on UK television and BBC Radio 3, and the first of a series of recordings
with the BSO on Naxos. In December 2003 she toured to the Vienna
Konzerthaus and Berlin Philharmonie with the BSO and appeared on
German television. Largely as a result of her work with the BSO
she was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Conductor
of the Year 2002, and was voted Gramophone Artist of the Year 2003.
Music Director of the Colorado Symphony since 1993, where her innovative
programming has won several national awards, Alsop will stay on
there as Music Director Laureate for 2 more years. Her reputation
in North America has been secured through her very successful Music
Directorship at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and
her high-profile guest appearances with orchestras such as the Chicago
Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles
Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Minnesota
Orchestra, National Symphony (Washington), Dallas, Toronto, Montreal,
St. Louis, Atlanta, Houston, Cincinnati and Baltimore symphonies.
This season she returned for the third time to the Chicago Symphony
at the Ravinia Festival and also returned to give subscription concerts
with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota
Orchestra and St. Louis Symphony. In May she conducted the New York
Philharmonic at Lincoln Center in 4 semi-staged performances of
Bernstein's opera Candide. In addition to many operas in
concert, she conducted her first fully-staged Traviata in
2000 and recently conducted Nixon in China with the St. Louis
Opera in June 2004.
Marin Alsop has become an annual guest of both the London Symphony
and London Philharmonic orchestras in their subscription seasons—a
privilege afforded to few conductors. Having worked with almost
all the major UK orchestras prior to her Bournemouth appointment,
her guesting engagements in Europe continue to heighten her international
profile. She has appeared with orchestras such as the Orchestre
de Paris, the orchestras of Lyon and Toulouse, the radio symphony
orchestras of Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Berlin (RSB), Helsinki
Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony and
Orchestra de Santa Cecilia in Rome. In October 2004 she makes her
debut with the Munich Philharmonic.
Further afield, she has appeared with the Sydney Symphony, and
made her Tokyo debut with the New Japan Philharmonic in April 2002.
She returns to Japan in 2004 for concerts with the Tokyo Philharmonic.
As Principal Guest with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra 1999-2003,
Alsop had a huge success with her Barber orchestral cycle on Naxos
(six CDs), generating nominations for a Grammy, a Gramophone Award
and a Classical Brit Award. In Summer 2002 Naxos released a recording
of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony with the Colorado Symphony, which
has had excellent reviews internationally. Alsop has made several
recordings with the Colorado Symphony of works by American composers
such as Rouse and Tower for Koch, and a premiere recording of Gershwin's
opera Blue Monday on RCA Red Seal with the Concordia Orchestra.
In 2003 she began a series of single-composer discs for Naxos with
the Bournemouth Symphony, starting with Adams, Glass and Bernstein,
and moving on to Weill and Bartok.
Marin Alsop is a native of New York City, attended Yale University,
and received her Master's Degree from the Juilliard School. In 1989
she won the coveted Koussevitzky Conducting Prize at the Tanglewood
Music Center, where she was a pupil of Leonard Bernstein, Seiji
Ozawa, and Gustav Meier. The same year she was a prizewinner at
the Leopold Stokowski International Conducting Competition in New
York.
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