BSO's Marin Alsop Suffers Minor Injury, Cancels July Performances with Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) regrets to announce that BSO Music Director Marin Alsop has suffered a minor injury to her wrist, following an accident in her hotel in São Paulo, Brazil on Monday night. She has been advised to cancel her conducting engagements with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra for the month of July. Her next concert appearance with the BSO is currently scheduled for September 20, 2013. The BSO will continue to update the public about Marin Alsop's recovery.

"Marin Alsop has a devoted following of thousands of people around the world whose lives she has touched through music. The BSO joins this community of supporters and wishes our Maestra a speedy recovery," said BSO President and CEO Paul Meecham.

Hailed as one of the world's leading conductors for her artistic vision and commitment to accessibility in classical music, Marin Alsop made history with her appointment as the 12th music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. With her inaugural concerts in September 2007, she became the first woman to head a major American orchestra. She also holds the title of conductor emeritus at the Bournemouth Symphony in the United Kingdom, where she served as the principal conductor from 2002?2008, and is music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in California. In February 2011, Marin Alsop was named the music director of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP), or the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, beginning in the current 2012?2013 season.

In 2005, Ms. Alsop was named a MacArthur Fellow, the first conductor ever to receive this prestigious award. In 2007, she was honored with a European Women of Achievement Award, in 2008 she was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2009 Musical America named her "Conductor of the Year." In November 2010, she was inducted into the Classical Music Hall of Fame. Ms. Alsop was named to Guardian's Top 100 Women list in March 2011. In 2011 Marin Alsop was named an Artist in Residence at the Southbank Centre in London, England.

A regular guest conductor with the New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ms. Alsop appears frequently as a guest conductor with the most distinguished orchestras around the world. In addition to her performance activities, she is also an active recording artist with award?winning cycles of Brahms, Barber and Dvo?ák.

Marin Alsop attended Yale University and received her master's degree from The Juilliard School. In 1989, her conducting career was launched when she won the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize at Tanglewood where she studied with Leonard Bernstein.

Photo by: Grant Leighton

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