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.

Ms. Martinson received her Bachelor of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music and her Master of Music in Historical Performance at Boston University studying baroque violin.

She has participated in the Spoleto Festival dei due Mondi, Italy, the SHIRA International Orchestra, Israel, the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, the Scotia Festival of Music, Canada and the Aston Magna Music Festival. She has worked with such artists as Zubin Mehta, James Conlon, John Gibbons, Christopher Hogwood, Ronald Copes, Seymour Lipkin and Colin Carr.

In 1999 Ms. Martinson received the Netherland-America Foundation and Frank Huntington Beebe Awards to study violin with Vera Beths at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. While living in Amsterdam she served as concertmaster of the Philharmonish Mozart Orkest.

Ms. Martinson is a member of Boston Baroque, recently won a tenured position with the Handel and Haydn Society, and is principal second violin of Philadelphia's baroque orchestra Tempeste di Mare. She is also a member of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project one of the countries leading modern music groups.

Recent solo appearances include Bach's Triple Violin Concerto with Boston Baroque in January 2005 and a Double Violin Concerto by Telemann with Tempesta di Mare in October 2004. This summer Ms. Martinson has been invited to participate in the Bach Carmel Festival in California.

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