ALBUMJohn Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does the Spider DanceORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Marin Alsop
Albums by Marin Alsop
ALBUMJohn Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does the Spider DanceORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Marin Alsop
ALBUMMalek Jandali: Concertos (1)Rachel Barton Pine, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop & Anthony McGill
ALBUMKevin Puts: Marimba Concerto, The City, & Oboe Concerto No. 2 "Moonlight"Katherine Needleman, Ji Su Jung, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra & Marin Alsop
ALBUMSchumann: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (Re-Orchestrated by G. Mahler)ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Marin Alsop
ALBUMJean-Baptiste Robin: Time Circles, Orchestral & Chamber MusicOrchestre National de France, Marin Alsop, Jean Deroyer, Sarah Nemtanu, Romain Descharmes, Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Nicolas Chalvin, Delphine Haidan, Victor Julien-Laferrière & François Salque
ALBUMR. Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (Re-Orchestrated by G. Mahler)ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Marin Alsop
ALBUMChopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11Hayato Sumino, Marin Alsop & Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMAmanda Lee Falkenberg: The Moons SymphonyAmanda Lee Falkenberg, London Voices, London Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop & Ben Parry
Although she is far from being the first female conductor, Marin Alsop blazed a trail as one of the few women to follow a career path that was until recently almost the exclusive preserve of men. Her cheerful charisma and media-friendly personality have done much to normalize the presence of women on the podium for more than 20 years. Born in New York City in 1956, she held regional posts in the U.S. before becoming the principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (2002-08), the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (2007-21), the principal conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (2012-19), and the chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (since 2019)—the first woman to hold any of these positions. In 2013 she was also the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms. Initially a violinist, she studied at the Juilliard School before becoming one of the last conducting pupils of Leonard Bernstein. She has been assiduous in promoting her mentor’s work, unearthing much of his little-heard orchestral music and reaching far beyond his popular theater works and symphonies. Her other recordings—mostly for the Naxos label—feature American composers such as Barber, Ives, John Adams, John Corigliano, and Jennifer Higdon, and mainstream European repertoire including symphonies by Brahms, Dvořák, and Mahler.