Notable FigureFemale
Marin Alsop
born 1956
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryMarin Alsop 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.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
October 16, 1956
Manhattan
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Occupations & fields
conductormusic educatorviolinistmusic directorwoman conductormusician
Awards & honours
MacArthur Fellows ProgramFellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesCrystal AwardDitson Conductor's AwardClassic Brit AwardsRoyal Philharmonic Society Award (BBC Radio 3 Listeners' Award)
- Field and occupation
- americká dirigentka
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