The Conductor, Bernadette Wegenstein’s new documentary about conductor Marin Alsop, premiered on June 14 at the Hudson Yards Public Square and Gardens in New York City as part of the Tribeca Film Festival, with an additional in-person screening at Marine Park in Brooklyn on June 18. The film festival has also released a virtual version of the 90-minute film via its Tribeca at Home channel, for viewers based in the U.S., available through June 23. Alsop steps down on June 19 as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; she also serves as chief conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and as chief conductor and curator of Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, where she conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s summer residencies. She is founder of the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship, which promotes and nurtures the careers of women conductors, and this month she becomes music director of the University of Maryland’s National Orchestral Institute and Festival in College Park. More information about The Conductor is available at https://tribecafilm.com/films/conductor-2021.
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