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Marin Alsop ... Mentor

For Fame to Come, It Must Come Last by David Srebnik Type A, highly driven conducting students with dreams of conducting a big orchestra get surprising instruction from conductor Marin Alsop

Listen to Marin Alsop by clicking next to "Listen" above.

Marin Alsop counts her parents and Leonard Bernstein as her primary mentors. She's also an active mentor as the founder of the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, a program which fosters and encourages women who are training to be conductors.

More information about the TCCF can be found by visiting its website.

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