Christian Baldini – conductor
- Music Director, UC Davis Symphony Orchestra and Camellia Symphony
- Finalist in Nestlé & Salzburg Festival Conductors’ Award in 2012
- Guest conducted San Francisco Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, Royal Scottish National, BBC Symphony, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra
- Successful debuts in 2015-16 with both Teatro Argentino de la Plata and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Argentina led to re-invitations in 2016-17
- First CD of Mozart arias and overtures with Elizabeth Watts and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra released in June 2015, to great critical acclaim, and was Classic FM’s Album of the week (1st June), and BBC Music Magazine’s Recording of the month (September 2015)
- Conducted world première of Oscar Strasnoy’s opera Requiem at the Teatro Colón in 2014, directed by Matthew Jocelyn. Re-invited by Teatro Colón to conduct a production of 2001: A Space Odyssey in December 2015 and a Dallapiccola double-bill in 2016
- An advocate for contemporary music: has conducted premières of more than 80 works, and worked on Ferneyhough’s La terre est un homme and Birtwistle’s Gawain with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
- A noted composer, Baldini’s music has been played by the Ensemble Modern, Southbank Sinfonia, PluralEnsemble Madrid and at the Donaueschingen Musiktage
Contact:
Victoria Rowsell (Managing Director)
Nicolas Papageorgiou (Artist Manager)
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Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Argentina
Varèse, Amériques
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven, Symphony no.9 (excerpt)
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel (excerpts)
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
Ligeti, Mysteries of the Macabre
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
Berio Sinfonia
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
Repertoire
Christian Baldini - List of conducted symphonic repertoire
- Adams, Short Ride on a Fast Machine
Adams, Tromba Lontana - Adams (John Luther), The Light That Fills the World
- Ades, In Seven Days
- Alfvén, Midsommarvaka (Swedish Rhapsody no.1)
- Bach, Suite No. 3 in D Major
Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Bach, Cantata “Weinen, klagen, sorgen, zagen”
Bach, Cantata “Actus Tragicus” (Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit) - Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Barber, Adagio for Strings - Barraque, Concerto
- Bartok, Miraculous Mandarin Suite
Bartok, Romanian Folk Dances
Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra
Bartok, Piano Concerto no.3
Bartok, Violin Concerto no.2 - Bates, Mason, The Rise of Exotic Computing for Sinfionetta and ElectronicaAdes
- Beethoven, Egmont (Complete Incidental Music)
Beethoven, Symphony No. 1
Beethoven, Symphony No. 2
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3
Beethoven, Symphony No. 4
Beethoven, Symphony No. 5
Beethoven, Symphony No. 7
Beethoven, Symphony No. 8
Beethoven, Symphony No. 9
Beethoven, Leonore No. 3 Overture
Beethoven, The Creatures of Prometheus Overture
Beethoven, Fidelio Overture
Beethoven, Coriolan Overture
Beethoven, Egmont Overture
Beethoven, Ah Perfido
Beethoven, Elegischer Gesang
Beethoven, Violin Concerto - Berio, Folksongs
Berio, Rendering (Recreation of Schubert’s 10th Symphony)
Berio, Sinfonia - Bernstein, Overture ‘Candide’
Bernstein, Symphony no.2 ‘The Age of Anxiety.’ - Binelli, Alma Iluminada
Binelli, Contrabando - Berlioz, Les nuits d’été
Berlioz, Romeo and Juliet (Part I)
Berlioz, Roman Carnival Overture
Berlioz, Le Corsaire Overture
Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique - Bizet, Carmen Suite No. 1
Bizet, Carmen Suite No. 2
Bizet-Waxman, Carmen Fantasie
Bizet, Carmen (selections) - Boulez, Improvisations sur Mallarme I
Boulez, Improvisations sur Mallarme II
Boulez, Derive I - Brahms, Symphony No. 1
Brahms, Symphony No. 2
Brahms, Symphony No.3
Brahms, Symphony No. 4
Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem
Brahms, Academic Festival Overture
Brahms, Tragic Overture
Brahms, Violin Concerto - Britten, Four Sea Interludes
- Bruckner, Te Deum
Bruckner, Symphony No. 4 - Buxtehude, Cantata “
Befehl dem Engel, dass er komm” - Carter, Elegy for Strings
Carter, Triple Duo - Copland, El Salon Mexico
Copland, Appalachian Spring
Copland, A Lincoln Portrait
Copland, Inscape
Copland, Orchestral Variations (1957)
Copland, Piano Concerto (1926) - Dallapiccola, Piccola musica notturna
- Debussy, Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune
Debussy, La Mer
Debussy, Premiere Rhapsodie (for Clarinet and Orchestra) - De Falla, La vida breve (selections)
- Del Tredici, Final Alice
- Donatoni, Arpege
- Donizetti, Don Pasquale (selections)
- Doppler, Rigoletto Fantasie for two flutes and orchestra
- Dutilleux, Tout un monde lointain
- Dvorak, Symphony No. 5
Dvorak, Symphony No. 7
Dvorak, Symphony No. 8
Dvorak, Symphony No. 9
Dvorak, Requiem
Dvorak, Carnival Overture
Dvorak, Serenade for Strings
Dvorak, Serenade for Wind Instruments - Elgar, Sospiri
Elgar, Enigma Variations
Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius
Elgar, Serenade for Strings - Fauré, Requiem
Fauré, Pelléas and Mélisande
Fauré, Pavane
Fauré, Prelude from Pénélope - Feldman, Coptic Light
- Ferneyhough, La terre est un homme
- Foss, For Toru
Foss, “… then the rocks on the mountain began to shout” – Charles Ives - Gershwin, Suite from Porgy and Bess (Catfish Row)
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue - Ginastera, Dances from Estancia
Ginastera, Ollantay
Ginastera, ‘Panambi’ Suite for Orchestra
Ginastera, Psalm 150
Ginastera, Variaciones concertantes - Golijov, Night of the Flying Horses
- Gorecki, Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings
- Gounod, Petite Symphonie
- Haendel, Messiah
- Haydn, Symphony No. 85
Haydn, Symphony No. 99
Haydn, Symphony No. 100
Haydn, Symphony No. 101
Haydn, Symphony No. 102
Haydn, Symphony No. 103
Haydn, Symphony No. 104
Haydn, Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat Major - Holst, The Planets
Holst, St. Paul’s Suite - Hurel, Figures libres
- Ives, Symphony No. 2
Ives,The Unanswered Question
Ives, Three Places in New England - Khachaturian, Suite from Gayane
- Koussevitzky, Double Bass concerto op.3
- Kurtag, Stele
- Leoncavallo, Pagliacci (selections)
- Liadov, Kikimora
Liadov, Baba Yaga
Liadov, The Enchanted Lake - Lieberson, Neruda Songs
- Ligeti, Atmospheres
Ligeti, Lontano
Ligeti, Lux aetema
Ligeti, Mysteries of the Macabre
Ligeti, Requiem - Liszt, Prometheus
- Lutoslawski, Concerto for Orchestra
- MacMillan, The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
- Mahler, Symphony No. 1
Mahler, Symphony No. 4
Mahler, Symphony No. 5
Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)
Mahler, Rückert Lieder - Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana (selections)
- Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 3
Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 4
Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 5
Mendelssohn, Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture - Messiaen, Couleurs de la Cité céleste
Messiaen, Les offrandes oubliées - Milhaud, La Création du monde
Milhaud, Scaramouche
Milhaud, Concerto for percussion and small orchestra - Mozart, Symphony No. 29
Mozart, Symphony No. 36
Mozart, Symphony No. 38
Mozart, Symphony No. 39
Mozart, Symphony No. 40
Mozart, Requiem
Mozart, Great Mass in C minor
Mozart, Coronation Mass in C major
Mozart, Exsultate, Jubilate
Mozart, La clemenza di Tito (overture and selected arias)
Mozart, Cosi fan tutte (overture and selected arias)
Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (overture and selected arias)
Mozart, La finta giardiniera (overture and selected arias)
Mozart, Idomeneo (overture and selected arias)
Mozart, Gran Partita
Mozart, Bella mia fiamma
Mozart, Kyrie in D Minor
Mozart, Masonic Funeral Music in C Minor
Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante
Mozart, Clarinet Concerto - Mussorgsky/Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition
- Nicolai, The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture
- Nichols, Sam, Cello Concerto
- Nielsen, Symphony No. 4 (The Inextinguishable)
Nielsen, Clarinet Concerto - Ortiz, Pablo, Four Hardy Songs, for soprano and orchestra
- Parry, Blest Pair of Sirens
- Perotin, Sederunt Principes
- Piazzolla, The Four Seasons (Violin Concerto)
Piazzolla, Tangazo
Piazzolla, Oblivion
Piazzolla, Suite Punta del Este - Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1
Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major
Prokofiev, Lieutenant Kijé Suite
Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf
Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1 (Classical Symphony)
Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5 - Puccini, Crisantemi
- Ravel, Alborada del gracioso
Ravel, Bolero
Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2
Ravel, Les Elémens
Ravel, Pavane pour une infante défunte
Ravel, Pièce en forme de Habanera
Ravel, Rapsodie espagnole
Ravel, Piano Concerto in G Major - Respighi, Pines of Rome
Respighi, The Birds - Revueltas, Sensemayá
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Symphony No. 1 in E minor
Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade
Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Easter Overture - Rossini, Stabat Mater
Rossini, Overture the Barber of Seville
Rossini, Overture L’italiana in Algeri
Rossini, Overture La gazza ladra - Saint-Saëns, The Carnival of the Animals
- Salieri, Overture to Les Danaïdes
- Schubert, Symphony No. 3
Schubert, Symphony No. 4
Schubert, Symphony No. 5
Schubert, Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)
Schubert, Symphony No. 9 (The Great)
Schubert, Rosamunde (Entr’actes and Ballet music)
Schubert, Die Zauberharfe (Overture)
Schubert, Overture in the Italian Style (C major) - Schumann, Symphony No. 1
Schumann, Symphony No. 2
Schumann, Symphony No. 3
Schumann, Symphony No. 4
Schumann, Manfred Overture
Schumann, Genoveva Overture - Sciarrino, Introduzione all’oscuro
- Scriabin, Rêverie
Scriabin, The Poem of Ecstasy - Shostakovich, Symphony No. 1
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 10
Shostakovich, Festive Overture - Sibelius, Symphony No. 1
Sibelius, Symphony No. 2
Sibelius, Symphony No. 3
Sibelius, Symphony No. 4
Sibelius, Symphony No. 5
Sibelius, Symphony No. 7
Sibelius, Finlandia
Sibelius, Luonnotar
Sibelius, Pelléas and Mélisande
Sibelius, The Swan of Tuonela
Sibelius, Violin Concerto - Strauss, Johann I, Radetzky March
- Strauss, Johann II, Die Fledermaus Overture (The Bat)
Strauss, Johann II,
Der Zigeunerbaron
Overture (The Gipsy Baron)
Strauss, Johann II, Vienna Blood Waltz
Strauss, Johann II, Voices of Spring Waltz
Strauss, Johann II, Emperor Waltzes
Strauss, Johann II, Pizzicato Polka
Strauss, Johann II, Artist’s Life Waltz
Strauss, Johann II,
An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube) - Strauss, Richard, Don Juan
Strauss, Richard, Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Strauss, Richard, Till Eulenspiegel
Strauss, Richard, Also sprach Zarathustra - Stravinsky, Firebird Suite (1919)
Stravinsky, Petrushka (1947)
Stravinsky, Rite of Spring (1947)
Stravinsky, Concertino for 12 Instruments
Stravinsky, Dumbarton Oaks
Stravinsky, Fanfare for a New Theatre
Stravinsky, Scherzo à la russe
Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Stravinsky, Symphony in C - Takemitsu, Requiem for Strings
Takemitsu, A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden - Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6
Tchaikovsky, Francesca da Rimini
Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky, Variations on a Rococo Theme
Tchaikovsky, Serenade for Strings
Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker (selections) - Tolosa, Dimmi Chi Fosti
- Uono, Ken, On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis
- Vaughan Williams, Dona nobis pacem
Vaughan Williams, A Sea Symphony - Varèse, Amériques
Varèse, Octandre - Verdi, Overture to
(I vespri siciliani
Verdi, Overture to La forza del destino
Verdi, Overture to Nabucco
Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 - Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
- Von Suppe, Light Cavalry Overture
- Wagner, Prelude to Parsifal
Wagner, Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Wagner, Overture to Tannhäuser
Wagner, Overture to Rienzi
Wagner, Tannhäuser (selections) - Weber, Oberon Overture
Weber, Der Freischütz Overture
Christian Baldini - Opera Repertoire
- Bartok – Bluebeard’s Castle
- Birtwistle – Gawain
- Britten – The Rape of Lucretia, Turn of the Screw
- Dallapiccola – Il Prigioniero, Volo di Notte
- Donizetti – L’elisir d’amore
- Gounod – Faust
- Ligeti – Le Grand Macabre
- Mozart – Così fan tutte, Die Zauberflöte , Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro
- Puccini – La Bohème
- Strasnoy – Requiem
- Verdi – Un Ballo in Maschera, La Traviata, Rigoletto
Christian Baldini - List of 20th and 21st Century Repertoire
- Adams, Short Ride on a Fast Machine
Adams, Tromba Lontana - Adams (John Luther), The Light That Fills the World
- Ades, In Seven Days
- Alfvén, Midsommarvaka (Swedish Rhapsody no.1)
- Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Barber, Adagio for Strings
Barber, Piano Concerto - Barraque, Concerto
- Bartok, Bluebeards’s Castle
Miraculous Mandarin Suite
Bartok, Romanian Folk Dances
Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra
Bartok, Piano Concerto no.3
Bartok, Violin Concerto no.2 - Bates, Mason, The Rise of Exotic Computing for Sinfionetta and ElectronicaAdes
- Berio, Folksongs
Berio, Rendering (Recreation of Schubert’s 10thSymphony)
Berio, Sinfonia - Bernstein, Overture ‘Candide’
Bernstein, Symphony no.2 ‘The Age of Anxiety.’ - Binelli, Alma Iluminada
Binelli, Contrabando - Bizet-Waxman, Carmen Fantasie
- Boulez, Improvisations sur Mallarme I
Boulez, Improvisations sur Mallarme II
Boulez, Derive I - Britten, The Rape of Lucretia
Britten, The Turn of the Screw
Britten, Four Sea Interludes - Carter, Elegy for Strings
Carter, Triple Duo - Copland, El Salon Mexico
Copland, Appalachian Spring
Copland, A Lincoln Portrait
Copland, Inscape
Copland, Orchestral Variations (1957)
Copland, Piano Concerto (1926) - Dallapiccola, Piccola musica notturna
Dallapiccola, Il Prigioniero
Dallapiccola, Volo di Notte - Debussy, Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune
Debussy, La Mer
Debussy, Premiere Rhapsodie (for Clarinet and Orchestra) - De Falla, La vida breve (selections)
- Del Tredici, Final Alice
- Donatoni, Arpege
- Doppler, Rigoletto Fantasie for two flutes and orchestra
- Dutilleux, Tout un monde lointain
- Elgar, Sospiri
Elgar, Enigma Variations
Elgar, Cello Concerto
Elgar, The
Dream of Gerontius - Feldman, Coptic Light
- Ferneyhough, La terre est un homme
- Foss, For Toru
Foss, “… then the rocks on the mountain began to shout” – Charles Ives - Gershwin, Suite from Porgy and Bess (Catfish Row)
Gershwin, Piano Concerto in F
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue - Ginastera, Dances from Estancia
Ginastera, Ollantay
Ginastera, ‘Panambi’ Suite for Orchestra
Ginastera, Psalm 150
Ginastera, Variaciones concertantes - Golijov, Night of the Flying Horses
- Gorecki, Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings
- Holst, The Planets
Holst, St. Paul’s Suite - Hurel, Figures libres
- Ives, Symphony No. 2
Ives, The Unanswered Question
Ives, Three Places in New England - Khachaturian, Suite from Gayane
- Koussevitzky, Double Bass concerto op.3
- Kurtag, Stele
- Liadov, Kikimora
Liadov, Baba Yaga
Liadov, The Enchanted Lake - Lieberson, Neruda Songs
- Ligeti, Atmospheres
Ligeti, Lontano
Ligeti, Lux aetema
Ligeti, Mysteries of the Macabre
Ligeti, Requiem - Lutoslawski, Concerto for Orchestra
- MacMillan, The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
- Mahler, Symphony No. 1
Mahler, Symphony No. 4
Mahler, Symphony No. 5
Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)
Mahler, Rückert Lieder - Messiaen, Couleurs de la Cité céleste
Messiaen, Les offrandes oubliées - Milhaud, La Création du monde
Milhaud, Scaramouche
Milhaud, Concerto for percussion and small orchestra - Mussorgsky/Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition
- Nichols, Sam, Cello Concerto
- Nielsen, Symphony No. 4 (The Inextinguishable)
Nielsen, Clarinet Concerto - Ortiz, Pablo, Four Hardy Songs, for soprano and orchestra
- Piazzolla, The Four Seasons (Violin Concerto)
Piazzolla, Tangazo
Piazzolla, Oblivion
Piazzolla, Suite Punta del Este - Prokofiev, Romeo and JulietSuite No. 1
Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet SuiteNo. 2
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major
Prokofiev, Lieutenant Kijé Suite
Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf
Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1 (Classical Symphony)
Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5
Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 2 - Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto No. 3 - Ravel, Alborada del gracioso
Ravel, Bolero
Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2
Ravel, Les Elémens
Ravel, Pavane pour une infante défunte
Ravel, Pièce en forme de Habanera
Ravel, Rapsodie espagnole
Ravel, Piano Concerto in G Major - Respighi, Pines of Rome
Respighi, The Birds - Revueltas, Sensemayá
- Sciarrino, Introduzione all’oscuro
- Scriabin, Rêverie
Scriabin, The Poem of Ecstasy - Shostakovich, Symphony No. 1
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 10
Shostakovich, Festive Overture
Shostakovich, Piano Concerto No. 2 - Sibelius, Symphony No. 1
Sibelius, Symphony No. 2
Sibelius, Symphony No. 3
Sibelius, Symphony No. 4
Sibelius, Symphony No. 5
Sibelius, Symphony No. 7
Sibelius, Finlandia
Sibelius, Luonnotar
Sibelius, Pelléas and Mélisande
Sibelius, The Swan of Tuonela
Sibelius, Violin Concerto - Sibelius, Luonnotar
- Strauss, Richard, Don Juan
Strauss, Richard, Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Strauss, Richard, Till Eulenspiegel
Strauss, Richard, Also sprach Zarathustra - Stravinsky, Firebird Suite (1919)
Stravinsky, Petrushka (1947)
Stravinsky, Rite of Spring (1947)
Stravinsky, Concertino for 12 Instruments
Stravinsky, Dumbarton Oaks
Stravinsky, Fanfare for a New Theatre
Stravinsky, Scherzo à la russe
Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Stravinsky, Symphony in C - Takemitsu, Requiem for Strings
Takemitsu, A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden - Uono, Ken, On a Sufficient Condition for theExistence of Most Specific Hypothesis
- Tolosa, Dimmi Chi Fosti
- Varèse, Amériques
Varèse, Octandre - Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
- Zivian, Harpsichord Concerto
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