Marin Alsop

American conductor
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October 16, 1956, New York, New York, U.S. (age 68)

Marin Alsop (born October 16, 1956, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American conductor who, as the musical director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (2007–21), Maryland, was the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. Alsop was the daughter of musicians and studied piano and violin as a child. By age nine, when she heard Leonard Bernstein lead the New York Philharmonic, she knew that she wanted to be a conductor. She entered Yale University in 1972 but in 1975 transferred to the Juilliard School in New York City, where she received bachelor’s (1977) and master’s (1978) degrees ...(100 of 569 words)