Marin Alsop
By Louis Harris | July 20, 2025 | Photo Kyle Dunleavy With Marin Alsop at the helm, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus gave a huge performance of a gargantuan symphony in the Pavilion at Ravinia on Friday night. The chorus was joined by two soloists, soprano Janai Brugger and mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke. This concert…
July 13, 2025 By Hanna Edgar The Chicago Symphony’s return to Ravinia? Make it double. On July 11 and 12, the orchestra and chief festival conductor Marin Alsop opened its season with two twinned programs. Both began with engrossing contemporary American openers: Carlos Simon’s “AMEN!” on Friday, Jessie Montgomery’s “Strum” on Saturday. Those were followed…
June 24, 2025 Forward Thinking: Conductor, Advocate, Change Agent By Simon Woods In Brief | Marin Alsop has shattered glass ceilings as an adventurous artist, music director of U.S. and international orchestras, passionate champion of music education for all, and tireless advocate for women conductors. This summer, as she receives the Gold Baton award from…
June 17, 2025 In Monday’s (6/16) Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Lottie Elizabeth Johnson writes, “Marin Alsop, one of the first women to helm a major American orchestra, offered another form of leadership at Abravanel Hall last week as she received a prestigious award that in years past has gone to prominent figures like Leonard…
May 29, 2025 National Orchestral Institute + Festival Each summer, the compettive fellowship program known as the National Orchestral Institute + Festival (or NOI+F) culminates in a month-long lineup of talks, masterclasses, and of course, orchestral and chamber concerts at the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Marin Alsop will lead the orchestra…
“Symphony of Survival”: The ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, which is threatened by Rotstift, has reaped extensive applause for Gustav Mahler’s second – also from the Minister of Culture Christoph Irrgeher. 23. May 2025, 16:30 The ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO) Vienna (here with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in April of the year)…
June 2025 / By Peter Quantrill / Photo: Brandon Patoc In February and March this year, Marin Alsop, Dalia Stasevska and Joana Mallwitz directed the Berlin Philharmonic in consecutive subscription programmes, uploaded to the orchestra’s Digital Concert Hall. Alsop’s programme – astonishingly, her BPO debut – is a long and fascinating one, opening with the…
Apr 11. By Gabe Meline. Photo: Brandon Patoc. In the 1990s, the freestyle rapper Supernatural had a routine that always won over the club. He’d solicit suggestions for words or phrases from the audience, or even items from rap fans’ pockets or purses, and then tell the DJ to drop the beat. Three minutes of complex wordplay…
Marin Alsop still suffers ‘archaic, old-fashioned views’ even from young male colleagues The world’s leading female conductor has said that there is a plateauing in the fight for equality in the orchestral pit as she prepares to bring an opera based on Billie Jean King’s epic Battle of the Sexes to Britain. Marin Alsop said…
Watch and listen to five recent highlights, including music at a fraught moment in the Kennedy Center’s history and a passing delight in Tchaikovsky. By Joshua Barone, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, Seth Colter Walls, Zachary Woolfe, and Oussama Zahr March 6, 2025 There was a time in recent memory when a performance of Julia Wolfe’s “Her Story,” for women’s…
