Conductor and Composer Christian Baldini has been internationally recognized by several awards in global competitions including the Seoul International Competition for Composers (South Korea, 2005), the Tribune of Music (UNESCO, 2005), the Ossia International Competition (Rochester, NY - 2008) and the Sao Paulo Orchestra International Conducting Competition (OSESP - Brazil, 2006), regarded as the most prestigious orchestra in Latin America.

Selected as the first Assistant Conductor of the Britten-Pears Orchestra, he has collaborated with conductor Alexander Polyanichko and has also worked with soloists of some of the world's premier orchestras: the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Berliner Philharmoniker, Halle Orchestra and members of the Alban Berg Quartett. His music has been performed with great critical acclaim in festivals and venues throughout Europe, South America, North America and Asia including the Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires), L'Arsenal (Metz, France), Jaqueline Du Pre Hall (Oxford, UK), Kumho Art Hall (Seoul), BKA Theater (Berlin), Berio Hall (Genoa, Italy) by orchestras and ensembles including the Orchestre National de Lorraine (France), SouthBank Sinfonia (London), New York New Music Ensemble, Chronophonie Ensemble (Freiburg), the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble (Vienna), the Barton Workshop (Amsterdam), the Kreisler Ensemble (London) and the Illegal Harmony Ensemble (Scotland). A CD including his tango "Forest Ella" was released in November 2007 on the PRETAL label.

Christian has worked with youth and professional orchestras and ensembles in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, England, Germany, Italy and the US, including the Sao Paulo Orchestra (OSESP), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica de Concepcion, Orquesta Sinfonica de Mar del Plata, Orquesta Sinfonica de Tucuman, Penn State Philharmonic, Cincinnati Concert Orchestra, Slee Sinfonietta and the Genova Ensemble. In January 2008 he gathered raving reviews conducting Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale with members of the Buffalo Philharmonic at the Kavinoky Theater: “…this rarely heard 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)

Christian currently serves as Music Director and Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the State University of New York at Buffalo & Music Director of the UB Contemporary Ensemble, where he also teaches Orchestral Conducting and conducts regularly the Slee Sinfonietta, the professional chamber orchestra in residence with the Center for the 21st Century Music. Most recently Leonard Slatkin invited him to participate during 2008 for three weeks with the National Conducting Institute at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, where he conducted the National Symphony Orchestra. Future engagements include conducting Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia for the Aldeburgh Festival (founded by Britten) at the Bury Theatre Royal in England.