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The dynamic work of Christian Baldini, conductor and composer, has taken him around the world, to guest conduct the Buenos Aires Philharmonic (Argentina), the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, opera for the Aldeburgh Festival (United Kingdom), and as a featured composer at the Acanthes Festival in France. After conducting the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP, Brazil), critic Arthur Nestrovski from the Folha de Sao Paulo praised this “charismatic young conductor” who “conducted by heart Brahms’s First Symphony, lavishing his musicality and leaving sighs all over the hall and the rows of the orchestra....”
In January 2008 he garnered rave reviews conducting Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale with Charles Haupt and members of the Buffalo Philharmonic at the Kavinoky Theater: "this piece from the composer's repertoire demands and rewards the listener's attention, especially when performed with the skill and attention to detail that conductor Christian Baldini gave to it." (Garaud MacTaggart, Buffalo News)
Baldini’s music has been performed throughout Europe, South America, North America and Asia by orchestras and ensembles including the Orchestre National de Lorraine (France), Southbank Sinfonia (London), New York New Music Ensemble, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Daegu Chamber Orchestra (South Korea), Chronophonie Ensemble (Freiburg) and the International Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt). His music appears on CD on the Pretal Label, and has been broadcast on SWR (German Radio) as well as in the National Classical Music Radio of Argentina. He has also conducted and recorded contemporary Italian music for the RAI Trade label.
Baldini’s work has received awards in several competitions including the top prize at the Seoul International Competition for Composers (South Korea, 2005), the Tribune of Music (UNESCO, 2005), the Ossia International Competition (Rochester, NY, 2008), the Daegu Chamber Orchestra International Competition (South Korea, 2008), and the Sao Paulo Orchestra International Conducting Competition (Brazil, 2006). He has been an assistant conductor with the Britten-Pears Orchestra (England) and a cover conductor with the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, DC). After teaching and conducting at the State University of New York in Buffalo, Baldini is now an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis, where he serves as the Music Director of the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra.
In 2008 he was invited by Leonard Slatkin to conduct the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, where he also served as a cover conductor. Last year he conducted Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia for the Aldeburgh Festival in England, founded by Britten in 1947.
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