Christina Day Martinson
Concertmaster
October 13
2006
Boston Baroque concertmaster debut
135
Performances
as concertmaster with Boston Baroque
ON DEMAND
Click the image to watch Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons featuring Concertmaster, Christina Day Martinson on demand.
Click the image above to watch Biber’s The Mystery Sonatas featuring Concertmaster, Christina Day Martinson on demand.
Christina Day Martinson serves as Concertmaster for Boston Baroque. Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, GRAMMY® nominated violinist Christina Day Martinson serves as Concertmaster and Associate Artistic Director for Boston Baroque and is Associate Concertmaster for The Handel + Haydn Society. She has been a featured soloist with Boston Baroque, the Handel + Haydn Society, Joshua Rifkin's Bach Ensemble, Tempesta di Mare, Ars Lyrica Houston, the Unicamp Symphony Orchestra in Brazil and the Philharmonisch Orkest Mozart in Amsterdam.
In 2018, Martinson was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for her tour-de-force performance of the complete cycle of Heinrich Biber’s The Mystery Sonatas, with Boston Baroque.
“[Martinson’s] playing [featured] a fearless technique and, best of all, a delightful sense of spontaneity and imagination.”
—The Boston Globe
Martinson has performed as Concertmaster under conductors such as Roger Norrington, Richard Egarr, Bernard Labadie, Raphaël Pichon, Nicholas McGegan, Laurence Cummings, Harry Christophers and Martin Pearlman, among others. Martinson's performances of the complete Mystery Sonatas in 2012-13 were hailed by The Boston Globe as a Top 10 Performance of the Year in 2012 and chosen by Jeremy Eichler for his Top Concerts of 2013.
A recipient of the NAF- Fulbright Grant and Frank Huntington Beebe Award, Martinson holds degrees from New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, the Royal Conservatory in The Netherlands, and received her Master of Music in Historical Performance from Boston University. She has given chamber music recitals in Jordan Hall, Boston, Ishihara Hall, Japan, the Tage Alter Musik Festival in Regensberg, the Thüringen Bachwochen in Germany, the Casals Festival, Puerto Rico, and at the Leuven Festival in Belgium.
In 2009, Martinson recorded Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Boston Baroque for Telarc Records.
“This is story-telling par excellence, Martinson’s polished technique and elegant musicianship fired in the kiln of imagination to produce mind-pictures of such vividness that the Greek term ekphrasis, with all its rhetorical associations, hardly covers it”
– Gramophone