He learned singing with Heloisa Nemoto Vergara and cello with Jean-Jacques Pagnot at the Music School of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre.

Conductor Karl Richter was instrumental in securing a scholarship from DAAD for Baldin to study with Martin Gründler at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt, where he received a Performing Arts degree.

[3] He undertook extended concert tours, which brought him to France, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Israel, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Latvia, Iceland, the USA and South America.

He worked with conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Helmuth Rilling, Herbert von Karajan, Rolf Beck, Karl Richter, Isaac Karabtchevsky and Peter Schreier.

His students included Reginaldo Pinheiro, Fernando Portari, Roberto Saccà, Marc Marshall, Hernán Iturralde, Ulf Bästlein, Hans Christoph Begemann, Georg Heckel, Winfried Toll and Ralf Willershäuser.