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. Equally at home in the core symphonic repertoire as with the most daring corners of new music, Baldini has collaborated with numerous composers of our time and premiered over 100 works. Baldini formerly served as a cover and assistant conductor with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London and the San Francisco Symphony. He has been the music director of the UC Davis Symphony since 2009 and of the Camellia Symphony Orchestra in Sacramento since 2012. His Mozart CD conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra was named BBC Magazine Recording of the Month. His compositions are published by Babel Scores in Paris.