Robert Baldwin is conducting his 24th year of Grand Night for Singing. He is Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at the University of Utah, and Music Director and Conductor for the Salt Lake Symphony. He is also the founding conductor for Sinfonia Salt Lake.

Dr. Baldwin has appeared across North America, Europe, and Asia as both a conductor and a performer on viola and viola d’amore. International appearances include the Hunan Symphony 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, and concerts in London, Vienna, and Salzburg.

Previously, he has held positions at the University of Kentucky, Lexington Philharmonic, New American Symphony, Flagstaff Symphony, and Northern Arizona University. Dr. Baldwin studied conducting in the United States and in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He makes his home in Salt Lake City, Utah where, in his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing, and hiking. He is also a published poet; his works appear in issues of Utah Life, Grey Sparrow Journal, Haiku Journal, and Poetry Quarterly. "Thirty," his first chapbook of poetry, was published in 2022.