Christina Day Martinson

violin

Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, Christina Day Martinson has twice been a National Finalist and prize-winner in the Canadian Music Competition. She has performed solo concertos with Boston Baroque, Tempesta di Mare, the UNICAMP Symphony Orchestra in Brazil, the NEC Bach Ensemble and the Symphony Orkest Mozart in Amsterdam. She is the recipient of the Netherland-America Foundation Grant and Frank Huntington Beebe Award.

Ms. Martinson serves as one of the concertmasters for Boston Baroque, is a tenured member of the Handel and Haydn Society and recently served as concertmaster under Sir Roger Norrington. She was principal second violin of Philadelphia's baroque orchestra Tempeste di Mare from 2003-06 and is also a member of the award-winning chamber ensemble Musicians of the Old Post Road.

Ms. Martinson has been featured twice on WGBH radio's "Classics in the Morning" with Cathy Fuller, performing Heinrich Biber's Mystery Sonatas with harpsichordist Martin Pearlman. She has given chamber music recitals in Jordan Hall as well as a nationally televised chamber concert in Japan's Ishihara Hall in June 2006. In March 2008, Ms. Martinson performed all of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with Joshua Rifkin's Bach Ensemble at the Turingen Bachwonen Festival in Germany. She peformed Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Boston Baroque this season and recently recorded this masterwork with Boston Baroque for Telarc Records. The CD and LP will be released in February 2009.

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