Marin Alsop is an American conductor and violinist. She is the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and music director of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra. She is also set to become the chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra starting in 2019.
The ORF is Vienna’s third-ranked orchestra, behind the Philharmonic and the Symphony orchestras, and has little international profile. But the playing has improved over the past eight years under the German conductor Cornelius Meister and the hiring of Alsop signifies a corporate ambition to play a larger role.
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