“I’ve been the first woman to do a lot of things, and I’m really proud, but I also think it’s absolutely pathetic,” Marin Alsop, the first woman to lead a major American orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, said in a conversation with Michael Cooper, the classical music reporter for The New York Times...
Marin Alsop founded the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship in 2002 to mentor talented young women conductors. A Frenchwoman, Chloé van Soeterstede, has just been selected as the 2019-2021 Taki Concordia Conducting Fellow.She will make her debut next season with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and with several French orchestras. There is also a Taki Award to be given to three runners-up: Maria Badstue, Holly Hyun Choe, and Rebecca Tong.
