Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop
Alsop, on the right, at a charity function in Baltimore in 2016
Background information
Born (1956-10-16) October 16, 1956
New York City, New York, U.S.
GenresClassical
OccupationConductor
InstrumentViolin
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Marin Alsop (/ˈmærɪn ˈɔːlsəp/; born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor. She is 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 Ravinia Festival and of 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.

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