Marin Alsop on the Wall Street Journal and New York Times

In March, Marin Alsop, one of the foremost conductors of her generation, conducted the New York Philharmonic in a new concerto by Nico Muhly, featuring violinist Renaud Capuçon.

"Preceding the concerto was a stirring, well-modulated account of Beethoven’s “Leonore” Overture No. 3," wrote critic David Mermelstein for the Wall Street Journal. "Ms. Alsop demonstrated her prowess on the podium through disciplined phrasing and careful terracing of Beethoven’s plethora of climaxes."

Anything but a showboater on stage, Ms. Alsop, a former music director of the Baltimore Symphony, is a well-traveled American conductor of the no-nonsense school—ironic given her reverence for her old teacher, Leonard Bernstein. Her concerts are all about the music, and so it was heartening to observe not only a very full house coinciding with her guest appearance, but also the intensity of the applause she garnered throughout the evening.

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In the New York Times, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim wrote: "Alsop has an ability to manipulate time to expressive effect, and the sound she drew from the Philharmonic was cohesive and malleable, the playing poised between discipline and individual dazzle."

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This past month, Alsop became the first U.S.-born woman to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic. She also conducted the Lorelei Ensemble and the National Symphony Orchestra in the Washington D.C. premiere of Julia Wolfe’s oratorio Her Story.