Michael Boriskin was named one of Musical America’s “Top 30 Music Professionals of 2023.” He has appeared at the BBC, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Theatre des Champs-Elysees (Paris), Berlin Radio, Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires), Arnold Schoenberg Center (Vienna), and many other preeminent stages in over 30 countries. Traveling across four centuries of repertory, he has performed with such leading international orchestras and chamber ensembles as the San Francisco, Seattle, Utah, and Munich Symphonies, Polish National Radio Orchestra, Buffalo and Mexico City UNAM Philharmonics, American Composers Orchestra, Dorian Wind Quintet, New York Philharmonic Ensembles, and Borromeo, Lark, St. Petersburg, and St. Lawrence Quartets. He has recorded widely for Naxos, SONY Classical, Harmonia Mundi, New World, and Bridge; and been a frequent presence as performer, host, or commentator on NPR, American Public Media, the European Broadcasting Union, and Sirius. He has also served as Music Director of Mikhail Baryshnikov’s fabled White Oak Dance Project, and as project advisor for the New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, U.S. State Department, and Lincoln Center. As the longtime Artistic and Executive Director of Copland House, he has led that award-winning creative center for American music and the arts based at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark home to global prominence.
