Don Baldini

Lecturer, Double Bass

B.M., Indiana University

University of California

Don Baldini received his B.M. from Indiana University and did graduate studies at the University of California. In addition to teaching at Dartmouth, he is on the faculty of Keene State College where he conducts the orchestra and jazz ensembles and teaches classes in theory, string methods, jazz history and sight-singing. He performs regularly with the Vermont Symphony, Opera North, Keene Chamber Orchestra, Dartmouth Wind Symphony and Dartmouth Glee Club. He has also performed on television on the Tonight Show, St. Elsewhere, Winds of War, Love Boat, Bob Newhart Show, Matlock, Perry Como Holiday Specials, Charlie’s Angels, and in the films Little Mermaid, Fantasia, Benji the Hunted, Being There, and The Jazz Singer. Baldini can be heard on two newly released Frank Sinatra recordings, "Live at the Meadowlands" and the "Carnegie Hall 1984" collection, and a newly released DVD "Frank Sinatra Live from Tokyo" recorded at the Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.