Marin Alsop
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Marin Alsop 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 o
Alsop, on the right, at a charity function in Baltimore in 2016
Alsop with OSESP
BBC Proms
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The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.
Marin Alsop
…music director and in April 2015 extended her contract to the end of 2019. Alsop led the orchestra on a European tour, including its first appearance at the Proms in August 2012, the first Proms appearance by any Brazilian orchestra. They returned to Europe in October 2013, with concerts in Berlin, London, Paris…
The audience in the Royal Albert Hall during the 2017 BBC Proms
The first Promenade Concerts were held in the Queen's Hall until its destruction in 1941
The Proms moved to the Royal Albert Hall in 1944 (pictured here during the 2008 Proms season
A promenade concert in the Royal Albert Hall, 2022