Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop ( / ˈ m ær ɪ n ˈ ɔː l s ə p / ; born October 16, 1956) 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.

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