Marin Alsop

阿尔索普出生于美国纽约州纽约市曼哈顿区的音乐世家，父母都是职业音乐家。阿尔索普起先就读耶鲁大学，后来转至茱莉亚音乐学院并获得小提琴学士与硕士，于1981年成立“发烧弦乐团”(String Fever)。她在位于坛格坞音乐中心的1989孔斯维兹基指挥大赛获得首奖，并在当地受教于伦纳德·伯恩斯坦、小泽征尔、葛斯达夫·迈尔等人。   阿尔索普自1991年起担任圣塔克鲁兹卡碧萝音乐节的音乐总监，这个音乐节特别重视现代音乐。她任职于科罗拉多交响乐团十二年，从首席指挥升任至音乐总监，并获得桂冠指挥家的荣誉。她也担任俄勒冈州尤金市尤金交响乐团的音乐总监，并在1988至1990年间担任维吉尼亚州里奇蒙市交响乐团的助理指挥。   阿尔索普在英国担任皇家苏格兰国家管弦乐团及伦敦市室内管弦乐团的首席客席指挥，于2002年秋季被任命伯恩茅斯交响乐团的首席指挥，于2003年被票选为留声机杂志的年度艺术家，同年获颁皇家爱乐协会指挥家奖。她同伯恩茅斯交响乐团的合约到2008年为止，并不再续任。   2007年四月，阿尔索普成为八位参与十年音乐推广计划－“建设卓越：21世纪的管弦乐团”的英国指挥家之一，将在英国以赠送学童音乐会票劵的方式推广古典音乐。   2005年七月，阿尔索普被提名为巴尔的摩交响乐团(BSO)第十二任音乐总监，使阿尔索普成为第二位带领美国主要乐团的女性指挥。2006-2007乐季，阿尔索普就以准音乐总监的身分带领乐团，而07-08乐季则正式成为音乐总监，同时是该团第一位女性音乐总监。这次任命是美国25大交响乐团第一次任命女指挥，而成为一个历史性的纪录。许多团员在任命之初，对于阿尔索普有明显的反对态度，然而经过磨合，阿尔索普目前与巴尔的摩交响乐团有相当成功的合作。   2005年九月20日，阿尔索普成为第一位获得麦克阿瑟奖的指挥家。   阿尔索普对于美国音乐的拥护与诠释均是为人称道的，但她对于传统曲目也有独到之处。她是第一位录制布拉姆斯交响曲全集(在Naxos下与伦敦爱乐交响乐团录制)和马勒交响曲(与伦敦交响乐团录制第五号交响曲，由LSO Live发行)的女性指挥。   2007年十一月7日，阿尔索普获得了伯恩茅斯大学荣誉音乐博士学位。Marin Alsop is an inspiring and powerful voice in the international music scene, a Music Director of vision and distinction who passionately believes that “music has the power to change lives”. She is recognised across the world for her innovative approach to programming and for her deep commitment to education and to the development of audiences of all ages.   Her outstanding success as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2007 has been recognised by two extensions in her tenure, now confirmed until 2021. As part of her artistic leadership in Baltimore, Marin Alsop has created bold initiatives that have contributed to the wider community and reached new audiences. In 2008 she launched ‘OrchKids’, which provides music education, instruments, meals and mentorship of the city’s neediest young people. Engaging the local community, the BSO Academy and Rusty Musicians schemes also allow adult amateur musicians the chance to play alongside members of the orchestra under Alsop’s baton.   Alsop took up the post of Principal Conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in 2012 and became Music Director in July 2013. She continues to steer the orchestra in its artistic and creative programming, recording ventures and its education and outreach activities. Alsop led the orchestra on a European tour in 2012, with acclaimed performances at the BBC Proms in London and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and they return to Europe in October 2013, with concerts in Berlin, London, Paris, Salzburg and Vienna.   Since 1992, Marin Alsop has been Music Director of California’s Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, where she has built a devoted audience for new music. Building an orchestra is one of Alsop’s great gifts, and she retains strong links with all of her previous orchestras – Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Principal Conductor 2002-8; now Conductor Emeritus) and Colorado Symphony Orchestra (Music Director 1993-2005; now Music Director Laureate).   Marin Alsop has guest-conducted the great orchestras of the world: Philadelphia, Cleveland, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, La Scala Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Bavarian Radio Symphony. In Europe, she regularly returns to the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Czech Philharmonic. Alsop has a close relationship with the London Symphony and London Philharmonic, appearing with both orchestras most seasons, as well as with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She is also Artist in Residence at the Southbank Centre in London.   In September 2013, Marin Alsop makes history as the first female conductor of the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms in London. Other highlights of 2013/14 include a performance of Mahler’s First Symphony with RSO Wien at the Vienna Konzerthaus, and return engagements with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and Czech Philharmonic orchestras.   Marin Alsop is the recipient of numerous awards and is the only conductor to receive the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, given to US residents in recognition of exceptional creative work. In 2008 she became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and, in the following year, was chosen as Musical America’s Conductor of the Year. She was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 2010 and was the only classical musician to be included in The Guardian’s “Top 100 women”, celebrating the centenary of International Women’s Day in 2011. In 2012 Alsop was presented with Honorary Membership (HonRAM) of the Royal Academy of Music, London.   Alsop’s extensive discography on Naxos includes a notable set of Brahms symphonies with the London Philharmonic and a highly-praised Dvořák series with the Baltimore Symphony. The first disc of her Prokofiev symphonic cycle with the São Paulo Symphony was Orchestral Choice in BBC Music Magazine. Other award-winning recordings include Bernstein’s Mass (Editor’s Choice, Gramophone Awards 2010) and Jennifer Higdon’s Percussion Concerto (Grammy Award 2010). Her next release on Naxos in September 2013 is Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with the MDR Leipzig Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra. Alsop has also recorded for Decca Classics, Harmonia Mundi and Sony Classical.   Born in New York City, Marin Alsop attended Yale University and received her Master’s Degree from The Juilliard School. Her conducting career was launched when, in 1989, she was a prize-winner at the Leopold Stokowski International Conducting Competition and in the same year was the first woman to be awarded the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center, where she was a pupil of Leonard Bernstein.