About

Robert Baldwin has served as Music Director and Conductor for the Salt Lake Symphony since 2005. He is also Professor of Conducting and Director of Orchestras at the University of Utah, and is the founding conductor of Sinfonia Salt Lake, a professional chamber orchestra in the region. He has served as the conductor of the annual event, “It’s A Grand Night for Singing in Lexington, Kentucky since 2000. He founded the annual conductor training workshop, Interpret, Inspire, Improvise!, held every June at the University of Utah which features performances of the Salt Lake Symphony.

Dr. Baldwin has appeared across the North America, Europe and Asia as a conductor and as a performer on viola and viola d’amore. International conducting appearances include the Hunan Symphony, Wuhan Conservatory, and Wuhan University Orchestras in China, Busan Maru International Music Festival in South Korea, Eutin Festspiele in Germany, Kuopio Academy of Music in Finland, and the Hermitage Camerata in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In demand as a guest conductor and clinician, he also has conducted performances with the National Chorale at Lincoln Center, New York, Utah Arts Festival, University of Kansas Symphony, Great Falls Symphony, Lafayette Symphony, Lexington Philharmonic, Lexington Singers, Flagstaff Festival of the Arts, Texas Tri-Collegiate Opera, and numerous All-State and educational festival orchestras. His performances and ensembles have received international attention and have been
featured on New York’s WQXR Classical Radio, and nationally broadcast radio programs, including Performance Today, Highway 89 and Weekend Edition. Always on the lookout for new experiences, he recently played a program of solo Bach and recited poetry inside the large cave for Timpanogos Cave National Monument’s Centennial Celebration.

Previously, he held faculty and conducting positions at the University of Kentucky, Lexington Philharmonic, New American Symphony, Flagstaff Symphony and Northern Arizona University. In 2019, he was appointed a visiting faculty at the Wuhan University Center for the Arts in China. Dr. Baldwin studied conducting in the United States and in Saint Petersburg,
Russia, and holds degrees in viola performance from the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Iowa, and a DMA in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Arizona. He makes his home in Salt Lake City, where, in his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing, hiking, and spending time with family and pets. He has published writings on music and is also a published poet, his poems appearing in Poetry Quarterly, Utah Life, Grey Sparrow Journal, and Haiku Journal, among others.

Websites:
https://music.utah.edu/faculty/robert-baldwin.php
http://www.saltlakesymphony.org/
Blog: http://beforethedownbeat.wordpress.com/