UPCOMING PERFORMANCE
December 31, 2026 & January 1, 2027 | New Year’s Celebration Concert

Filippo Ciabatti
Principal Guest Conductor

Beginning in June 2026, Filippo Ciabatti joins Boston Baroque’s artistic team in the newly created role of Principal Guest Conductor. From 2023 to 2025, Ciabatti served as Boston Baroque’s Assistant Conductor, assisting Martin Pearlman on all performances.

Praised for his “sensitive and nuanced” musicianship and for delivering performances “with admirable sweep and tension,” Filippo Ciabatti is a dynamic and versatile conductor with a multifaceted career.

“One of the most gifted and dynamic young conductors I have ever worked with. He is a spectacular talent.”

—David Kim, Concertmaster, The Philadelphia Orchestra

A native of Florence, Italy, Mr. Ciabatti has appeared as a guest conductor with orchestras across Europe and the Americas, including the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Irving Symphony Orchestra (TX), Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra (GA), Park ICM Orchestra (MO), Portland Symphony Orchestra (ME), San Angelo Symphony Orchestra (TX), Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Aurora Festival Orchestra (Sweden), Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad Central (Colombia), and members of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Italy). In summer 2024, he was awarded the Joel Revzen Conducting Prize and engaged to conduct the Festival Orchestra Napa (CA). Next season, he will perform as a Music Director finalist with Symphony New Hampshire and the Plano Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Ciabatti has collaborated with internationally renowned artists such as Gabriel Cabezas, Ray Chen, Nathan Gunn, David Kim, Tommy Mesa, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Time for Three. As an advocate for contemporary music, he commissioned a cello concerto from Noah Luna, which aired on NPR’s From the Top. He also promotes cross-genre collaborations, having premiered a secular oratorio by jazz composer Taylor Ho Bynum and hosted MacArthur Fellow Tomeka Reid for a performance of her cello concerto.

Mr. Ciabatti is the founding Artistic Director of Upper Valley Baroque, a professional orchestral and choral ensemble that, after its first five seasons, has earned critical acclaim and regularly sells out houses. In 2025, he was the first-ever guest conductor to perform Handel’s Messiah with Boston Baroque, leading “a lithe and vital Messiah that felt rich, personal, and gloriously lived in” (The Arts Fuse).

Equally at home in opera, Ciabatti is the Music Director of the Opera Company of Middlebury, where he debuted with a production of Fidelio in June 2023. He has also conducted productions with Opera North (NH) and the Lyric Theatre at Illinois, including Tosca, Madama Butterfly, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Don Giovanni (starring and directed by Nathan Gunn).

As Director of Orchestral and Choral Programs at the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, Mr. Ciabatti has spearheaded innovative, cross-disciplinary projects, collaborating with the Martha Graham Dance Company and Associazione Figli d’Arte Cuticchio, an award-winning Sicilian puppet company. In 2025, he led the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra on tour in Italy, performing Mahler’s First Symphony in major venues in collaboration with the Orchestra Toscana dei Conservatori.

Ciabatti is also an accomplished coach and collaborative pianist. He was on the faculty of Opera Viva! (Verona, Italy) for several seasons, and he joined the Seagle Festival (NY) faculty last summer. He has played in masterclasses with Renée Fleming, Isabel Leonard, and William Matteuzzi, and has served as a vocal coach at institutions such as the Cherubini Conservatory, Florence Opera Academy, and Maggio Musicale Formazione.

Mr. Ciabatti holds advanced degrees in piano, choral conducting, and orchestral conducting from both Italy and the United States. In 2018, he was a Conducting Fellow at the Aurora Music Festival (Sweden) under Jukka-Pekka Saraste. He won The American Prize in Conducting (college/university division) in 2021. He lives in Vermont with his wife, Francesca, their toddler, Gianluca, and their cat, Sofia.

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Dan Ludden
Interim Executive Director

Dan Ludden, Interim Executive Director, joined Boston Baroque in 2016. Before stepping into his current role, he served as General Manager and, most recently, as Chief Artistic Administration & Operations Officer. Throughout his tenure, Dan has overseen the organization’s finances, production logistics, and office administration, while also contributing to artistic planning as a consultant in selecting vocal soloists. As Interim Executive Director, he now leads Boston Baroque’s administrative and operational work during an important period of artistic transition and growth.

Dan’s lifelong involvement in music began as a boy soprano. He later earned degrees in Musicology and Operatic Voice from Bates College and Indiana University and served on the Board of Directors of Opera Boston. His combination of musical knowledge, artistic insight, and organizational experience has shaped nearly a decade of leadership at Boston Baroque.

Christina Day Martinson
Concertmaster

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 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. 

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