Baroque Violin Soloist, Art Historian & Interdisciplinary Scholar

Victoria Martino is an internationally acclaimed concert violinist, art historian, and interdisciplinary scholar. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University and the University of California, she studied Baroque violin and early music performance practice with the legendary Robert Koff in Boston. Since 1989, Martino has been performing internationally as a Baroque soloist and chamber musician with early music ensembles.

She has collaborated and played recitals with many notable figures in the early music world, including Eduard Melkus, Huguette Dreyfus, Paul Badura Skoda, David Bellugi, and Robert Barto. For over a decade, she toured internationally with her own ensemble, the Albertina Soloists, giving concerts throughout Europe, North America, Australia, and Japan. Her extensive early music orchestral experience includes: associate concertmaster of Capella Academica Wien for nearly ten years, and principal second violin of the Wiesbaden Bach Orchestra, the Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra (now Musica Angelica).

In addition to performing the standard solo repertoire for Baroque violin, including the complete works of Bach, Corelli, Handel, Tartini, and Telemann, Martino has re-discovered and presented many unpublished compositions from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. She is passionately committed to the revival of works that have never been heard by modern audiences. Whenever possible, she performs all early music from a facsimile of the autograph manuscript, in order to be completely faithful to the composer's intentions. She plays an original, unmodified Baroque violin by Michael Andreas Bartl (Vienna, 1760).