São Paulo post for one of the US’s most dynamic conductors.

Marin Alsop has been named as the new chief conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) from the start of the 2012 season. Her contract is for five years and will embrace concert-giving (some 30 to 40 concerts per season) and recording, as well as education and outreach activities, and she will lead the artistic and creative programming for the orchestra. She will take on this post alongside her music directorship of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (having renewed her contract there until 2015).

“I was truly impressed with the quality and commitment of the OSESP,” Marin Alsop said, “and I am thrilled by the enormous possibilities in front of us. I have been incredibly inspired by the musicians’ desire to make great music at an extremely high level, combined with their openness and hunger to embrace new ideas and initiatives. I was immediately struck by the whole organisation’s sense of adventure and their willingness to break through barriers in order to achieve the highest goals. Brazil is currently undergoing an economic and cultural revival and I look forward immensely to both contributing to and to being part...