Christian Baldini

Christian Baldini is a conductor and composer. Praised by the international press as a conductor with "a keen ear for detail" (The Scotsman) who brings "a symphonic revival" (Buenos Aires Herald), Baldini has conducted the Munich Radio Orchestra, North Netherlands Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphonies of Portugal and Argentina, Northwest German Philharmonic, Florida Orchestra, Orquesta de Cámara de Chile and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He has conducted opera for English National Opera, Aldeburgh Festival, and overseen yearly collaborations with the San Francisco Opera (Mondavi Center Rising Stars of Opera, of which he is artistic director), and for the Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, where he is a frequent guest conductor for opera and concerts. Baldini has collaborated with numerous composers of our time and premiered over 100 works. He was formerly assistant conductor with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London. His album conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for Linn Records (Mozart: Arias and Overtures) was chosen as Recording of the Month by the BBC Music Magazine and MusicWeb International. His newest album, featuring works by Ligeti, Varèse, Lutosławski and Baldini was just released on Centaur Records (August 2021), and is already garnering excellent reviews: "all four recordings on the album are genuine, top-class live performances, that is to say, actual, unedited one-shot takes. [..] the top-class performances are awash with invigorating energy and fine-tuned sensitivity, resulting in a wonderfully balanced survey of rhythm, texture and colour." [...] "The disc opens with Baldini’s Elapsing Twilight Shades, an absorbing orchestral tableau of thrilling transformations, inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1841 poem Excelsior. In the course of the seven-minute score, musical objects are rotated and permuted into various guises, generating some brilliantly surprising, almost cubist sonic events. The orchestral textures are unraveled with fascinating trajectories, full of bewitching instrumental combinations." (Jari Kallio, Adventures in Music)