2024-01-13 16:30:52
January 13, 2024, 10:05 am
When Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” premieres in Hall E of the Museumsquartier in Vienna on January 17th, it will be conducted by a musician who knows the work better than almost anyone. She recorded it with the London Symphony Orchestra in 2021. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for a concert production in 2005. And she was Bernstein’s student.
A key experience occurred for the nine-year-old when she saw Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and knew from then on: “I want to be a conductor.” In 1989 she studied with him and accompanied him to the first Pacific Music Festival in Japan in 1990. Marin Alsop was literally born with music from her parents, who were both professional musicians.
At the age of two she received piano lessons, a little later she learned the violin and soon she was accepted into the early learning program at the Juilliard School (NYC). At the turn of the millennium he made the jump to Europe, to the podium of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. The premiere round as the “first woman at the helm of…” continues unabated; she is the first woman to conduct at La Scala in Milan, the first female conductor of the Last Night Of The Proms, the first female leader of an orchestra in Brazil (São Paulo), etc., etc.
Appointed chief conductor of the RSO Vienna in 2019, she is also the first woman to lead a Viennese orchestra. She has recently been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the highly acclaimed film documentary “The Conductor” was released in 2022. She has long been promoting equality in the conducting business with her own initiatives and scholarships and, in the spirit of Bernstein, is a fanatical music educator.
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