Michael Unterman

Michael Unterman is a modern and baroque cellist, a member of the string chamber orchestra A Far Cry and the principal cellist of Boston Baroque, both Grammy nominees in 2019. This season he’ll also perform with Lorelei Ensemble, The Thirteen, as acting principal cellist with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, and at Arizona Early Music, the Washington National Cathedral, and the Staunton Music Festival in Virginia. At home in a variety of musical roles, Michael has received critical praise for his “soulful and sultry solos,” “nuanced, sensitive, and wholly gorgeous collaboration” (Classical Scene), and “heroic continuo” (Parterre Box). He has also been singled out for his concert curation with programs praised as “just the kind of imaginative artistic agenda that more groups should be prodded to try” (The Boston Globe) and “the way good programming should proceed” (Arts Fuse). He is also the artistic director of Five Boroughs Music Festival, a chamber music series that presents concerts in venues throughout the five boroughs of New York City.