1. Marin Alsop is the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
27 Facts About Marin Alsop
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Marin Alsop is music director laureate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Ravinia Festival, and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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Marin Alsop was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2020.
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Marin Alsop was educated at the Masters School and studied violin at the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division, graduating in 1972.
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Marin Alsop attended Yale University as a mathematics major, but transferred to Juilliard, where she earned a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music in violin.
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Marin Alsop was the commencement speaker at Juilliard's 116th Commencement Ceremony on June 18,2021 in Damrosch Park, where she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music.
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Marin Alsop won the Koussevitzky Prize as outstanding student conductor at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1989, where she met her hero and future mentor Leonard Bernstein.
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Marin Alsop was music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music from 1992 to 2016.
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Marin Alsop served as associate conductor of the Richmond Symphony in Richmond, Virginia, from 1988 to 1990, music director of the Eugene Symphony in Eugene, Oregon from 1989 to 1996, music director of the Long Island Philharmonic from 1990, music director of the Oregon Festival of American Music from 1992 to 1996, and Creative Conductor Chair for the St Louis Symphony from 1994 to 1996.
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In 2002, she co-founded the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, now the Taki Marin Alsop Conducting Fellowship, for female conductors.
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On September 20,2005, Marin Alsop became the first conductor ever to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Marin Alsop was the first woman appointed to lead a major American orchestra.
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Marin Alsop conducted a series of three farewell concerts in summer 2021.
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Marin Alsop was Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from 2002 to 2008, the first female principal conductor in the orchestra's history.
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Marin Alsop was voted Gramophone magazine's Artist of the Year in 2003 and won the Royal Philharmonic Society's conductor's award in the same season.
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Marin Alsop received an honorary degree of Doctor of Music from Bournemouth University on November 7,2007.
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In 2012, Marin Alsop became principal conductor of the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, the first female principal conductor of OSESP.
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Marin Alsop led the orchestra on a European tour, including its first appearance at the Proms in August 2012, the first Proms appearance by any Brazilian orchestra.
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Marin Alsop concluded her OSESP tenure in December 2019 and subsequently took the title of honorary conductor with the orchestra.
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In 2010,2013,2015 and 2016, Marin Alsop conducted the Belgian National Orchestra at the Queen Elisabeth Competition.
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On 7 September 2013, Marin Alsop became the first female conductor of the Last Night of The Proms, and returned to conduct the Last Night on 12 September 2015.
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Marin Alsop returned to conduct the Last Night of the Proms in 2023.
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In 2014, Marin Alsop first guest-conducted the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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Marin Alsop was a recipient of one of the 25th Annual Crystal Awards for 2019 at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
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Marin Alsop conducted her first recording in 2000 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a selection of works by Samuel Barber, which was released as part of the American Classics Series on Naxos Records.
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In June 2006, Marin Alsop conducted the BSO and violinist Joshua Bell in John Corigliano's violin concerto The Red Violin, recorded by Sony Classics and released in September 2007.
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In 2009, Marin Alsop released a recording of Leonard Bernstein's Mass with the BSO that earned a Grammy nomination for Best Classical Album.