Marin Alsop has been appointed Chief Conductor and Curator of Chicago\u2019s Ravinia Festival, where she looks forward to launching her tenure this summer. The new position was created specifically for Alsop, who will be the first to hold the title in the festival\u2019s 116-year history. Over the course of her two-year appointment, she will curate and conduct two weeks of concerts by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), whose summer residency has been hosted by Ravinia since 1936. Her upcoming highlights with the orchestra include programs celebrating legendary women and the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which granted women\u2019s suffrage.<\/p>\n
As the Chief Conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony and Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Alsop has earned myriad honors, including a MacArthur \u201cgenius\u201d Fellowship, the World Economic Forum\u2019s Crystal Award, and the prestigious Association of British Orchestras Award. Throughout this year\u2019s celebrations of Beethoven\u2019s 250th anniversary, she will lead \u201cAll Together: A Global Ode to Joy\u201d; the project, presented in partnership with Carnegie Hall, sees her conducting eleven orchestras on six continents in Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony, with new texts and supplementary commissions to amplify the work\u2019s message and relevance to each local community. She is very involved in music education, using an El Sistema-based method similar to the one with which Ravinia creates student orchestras through its \u201cReach Teach Play\u201d programs. As the final prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Leonard Bernstein, Alsop was appointed in 2018 to curate the festival\u2019s multi-season celebration of the great American composer-conductor. Now, in Welz Kauffman\u2019s final season, that role has been expanded, enabling her to help guide Ravinia\u2019s musical future.<\/p>\n
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