Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop (/ˈmærɪn ˈɔːlsəp/; born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor, the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She 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. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2020.
Marin Alsop | |
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Alsop, on the right, at a charity function in Baltimore in 2016 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | October 16, 1956 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Conductor |
| Instrument(s) | Violin |
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