Martin Pearlman, founder and music director of Boston Baroque.
In Monday’s (9/9) Musical America, Sarah Shay writes, “Boston Baroque’s Board of Directors has announced that the 2024-25 season will be Martin Pearlman’s last as music director. Pearlman founded the ensemble as Banchetto Musicale in 1973. Once a successor has been appointed, he will take up the newly created position of music director emeritus. In his role, it is expected that he will conduct select performances, while pursuing independent projects. Under Pearlman’s artistic leadership, Boston Baroque grew to become an important period instrument orchestra on the world stage…. Over a 50-year-plus career, Pearlman has led Boston Baroque in dozens of recordings for Telarc and Linn Records, often introducing important singers to a wider public and garnering six Grammy nominations along the way. As a scholar and musicologist, his completion of the music for” works by Mozart and Purcell and a “new orchestration of Cimarosa’s Il Maestro di Cappella were all premiered by Boston Baroque…. Boston Baroque plans to embark on a formal search for a new music director soon after the start of the 2025-26 concert season…. They plan on welcoming guest conductors and prospective candidates, the first time the venerable ensemble will have performed under a musician other than Pearlman.”
