Mischa Salkind-Pearl has composed instrumental, vocal, operatic, and electroacoustic works for soloists and chamber ensembles around the country. The Boston Globe wrote of his opera Troubled Water, premiered in September 2015 by Guerilla Opera, that “the invoked virtues, literary and musical, so fascinatingly and congruently avoid the conventionally operatic." Boston Classical Review listed Troubled Water as the Best Premiere of 2015. Upcoming projects include works for Sound Icon, loadbang, RE:Duo, and Hinge Quartet. Other forthcoming projects include a grant to compose a modular work for The Rhythm Method and Semiosis string quartets that integrates traditional techniques of American weaving, a collaboration for a concert-length piece for cellist Stephen Marotto and percussionist Mike Williams, and a new work for Atlanta’s Bent Frequency Duo. His work, A Poppy of Erasure, was included in the exhibition “Intersections: Masters of Line and Space” at the Akron Art Museum. He composed, performed, and recorded the music to the 2018 documentary Art in Smog by director Lydia Chen. He has collaborated closely with the Ludovico Ensemble, violinist Lilit Hartunian, percussionist/cimbalomist Nicholas Tolle, RE:Duo, and Lamnth, among many other projects. Mischa founded and served as artistic director of Boston's Equilibrium (2011-2019), an ensemble that presented concerts highlighting the music of New England’s diverse contemporary music community. Mischa is composer-in-residence for the Ludovico Ensemble, and was the 2020-2021 composer-in-residence at the Concord Academy in Massachusetts.

Mischa holds a BA in Music from Skidmore College, a Certificate in American contemporary music from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and an MM in Composition from the Boston Conservatory. He is Chair and Associate Professor of Composition, Contemporary Music, and Core Studies at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. His music can be heard on Ludovico Ensemble's two portrait albums of his work, Lines and Traces of Desire (2025), and I Might Be Wrong (2016); on Rhonda Rider’s Petrified Forest Project; Transient Canvas’s Wired (2018); Shi-An Costello’s [Alloy]; Chen Li Music's CD, Pluralities (2017); and Diagenesis Duo’s Hands and Lips of Wind (2019).

contact: m.salkind [at] gmail.com
recordings: sc / yt / bc
press: boston globe