In a male dominated field female conductor Marin Alsop has become one of the great female talents in the world of classical music. Her skills will be o show form Nov.2 to Nov. 4 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
Marin will be at the helm of Gustavo Dudamel's Los Angeles Philharmonic and will see over the Joshua Roman's cello performance as well as Michael Ward Bergeman hyper-accordion. Adding to the nights will be duo Jamey Haddad and Keita Ogawa's percussion musings.
Marin Alsop the Juilliard graduate will lead her ensemble through the musical styling of Barber and his "Second Essay for Orchestra, Op. 17," this piece will not be included on the Friday performance.
The American conductor will then guide the playing of Golijov's simply entitled "Azul," before wrapping up proceedings on the three nights with a rendition of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 6, Pathetique."
It all started for Marin in her hometown of New York City where she was born to a pair of musician parents. Marin attended Yale before opting to go to back New York to get her schooling at the Juilliard School where she got her bachelors and masters degrees in violin.
At the start of her musical career the New Yorker became the music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, California, since 1992. The Colorado Symphony Orchestra quickly made her their first principal conductor and then music director.
She also had stints with the Eugene Symphony in Oregon, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra just to name a few.
Marin Alsop
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