Robert Baldwin is Director of Orchestral Activities and professor of music at the University of Utah. He is also Music Director of the Salt Lake Symphony and conductor of "It's a Grand Night for Singing" in Lexington, Kentucky. During his tenure at the University of Utah, the orchestral program has grown dramatically in size and quality, with noted performances at the 2007 College Music Society and National Association of Schools of Music conferences, the 2003 Utah Arts Festival, the 2005 Utah Music Educators' Association Conference, and a tour of Austria for the 2006 Mozart Orchestra Festival. He has previously held conducting positions with the University of Kentucky, Lexington Philharmonic, New American Symphony, Northern Arizona University, and Flagstaff Symphony orchestras. Also an accomplished violist, Baldwin has held several positions, including professor of viola at Northern Arizona University and principal viola with the Arkansas Symphony, Flagstaff Symphony, and Arizona Opera Orchestras.

In 1998, Dr. Baldwin had his European conducting debut with the Hermitage Camerata in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Other recent guest conducting appearances include the Kuopio Academy of Music in Finland, Lexington Philharmonic, Flagstaff Festival of the Arts, Colorado State University, the Abilene Tri-Collegiate Opera, and numerous festivals and all-state orchestras around the country. His performances and ensembles have been featured on National Public Radio's Performance Today and Weekend Edition, as well as in national publications.

As a violist, experiences include guest appearances with the Amadeus Trio, and the Saint Petersburg and Stanford String Quartets. He has appeared as a soloist with the Flagstaff Symphony, Southern Methodist University Festival Orchestra, and Sedona Chamber Music Festival. He was violist of the Arizona-based Coconino Chamber Ensemble from 1989-1999. Recent appearances include recitals in the United States and Mexico, and performances with the University of Utah Faculty Chamber Players, Intermezzo Chamber Series, Utah Chamber Artists and the Utah Symphony.

Dr. Baldwin has studied in the United States and in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He holds degrees from the University of Northern Colorado, University of Iowa, and the University of Arizona, where he received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting in addtion to the Graduate Achievement Award. His conducting teachers have included Mikhail Kukushkin, Alexander Polishuk, James Dixon, Duilio Dobrin, Eugene Corporon, and Gregg Hanson. He has studied viola with Jeffrey Showell, William Preucil, Sr., Ronald Smith and Vernon Ashcraft and has performed in master classes for Gustav Meier, Kenneth Kiesler, the Tokyo String Quartet, Atar Arad, and Alice Preeves, among others.

Dr. Baldwin has been active as a clinician on the local, state and national level. He has served on national committees and panels, written for important publications, and worked as a clinician and adjudicator. Most recently, he contributed to a book on preparing orchestral viola sections in the recently published Playing the Viola. In 2007 he was awarded the Higher Education Teacher of the Year award by the Utah chapter of the American String Teachers Association. In 2008 he was honored with the University of Utah's College of Fine Arts Faculty Excellence Award.

Cellist Yeonjin Kim has been featured as a recitalist and chamber musician across the United States, Austria, Switzerland, Japan and her native Korea, and has made concerto appearances with numerous orchestras in Cleveland, Ann Arbor, Breckenridge and Seoul. Ms. Kim's multiple prizes and awards include the Sorantin International competition, Austria's Dichler-Sato competition, Japan's Viva Hall competition, and the Korean Philharmonic Orchestra Competition. Her live performances have been broadcast by classical radio stations in America, Korea and Japan.

An avid chamber musician, Ms. Kim has been cellist of the Kim Trio and Quartet La-Mer. She has performed at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage, Aspen Music Festival, Austrian Vienna Music Seminar, Switzerland Sion Music Academy, and the Japan Miyazaki Music Festival. Highlights include an invitation to perform at Isaac Stern's chamber music program. Ms. Kim has also served as principal cellist of the National Repertory Orchestra and Seoul Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and assistant principal cellist of the Northwest Indiana Symphony and Asian Youth Orchestra.

Ms. Kim graduated from Seoul National University with a Bachelor of Music degree as a student of Chung-Shim Baick and Jisook Shin and moved to Japan to study at Toho Gakuen with Ko Iwasaki. She received a master's degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan where she was a teaching assistant to Richard Aaron. A dedicated teacher, Ms. Kim has given masterclasses at leading music schools in St. Louis, Muncie, Ann Arbor, Wichita, and is currently on the faculty of the Madeline Island Music Festival.