Gregory Maldonado became a faculty member at California State University, Long Beach in Fall 2000, where he is a Music History Lecturer, Chamber Music Coach, Instructor of Modern and Baroque Violin/Viola, and was the Director of the Cole Conservatory Collegium Musicum from 2000-2010. He recently completed a Doctorate degree in Musicology, Early Music Studies, and Music Industry at USC, where he also studied Treble and Bass viols, as well as Baroque and Classical-era violin.

Dr. Maldonado, a native of Merced, California, has served as Music History Lecturer at UC Riverside and Riverside Community College. In addition, he was appointed Director of Musica Antiqua at UC Santa Barbara for the 2002-2003 academic year, and was Director of the USC Early Music Ensemble in 1996. He also served as Instructor of Baroque Violin at USC and UCLA. He received a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from UCLA, where he studied with Alexander Treger. While at UCLA he began playing the Baroque violin; he continued his Baroque violin studies with Monica Huggett in Canada and England. He has a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting and Music History from CSULB, where he was named Outstanding Graduate in the College of the Arts for 2003.

Dr. Maldonado is a frequent adjudicator for the California Music Educators Association, American String Teachers Association, Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association, The Music Center Spotlight Awards, Long Beach Mozart Festival, Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra, Pasadena Pops Orchestra, the John C. Walker Music Competition, and has served as a panelist for the Santa Monica Arts Commission and the California Arts Council.

He is also Founder-Music Director of the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra. As its Music Director, he has led the Orchestra through several versatile concert seasons and a broad range of collaborations with many organizations, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Music Center Education Division, The Los Angeles County Arts Commission's Summer Nights at the Ford Program, Grand Performances, the Skirball Cultural Center, and Long Beach Opera.

He has worked with many renowned period-instrument specialists, including Christopher Hogwood, Ton Koopman, Monica Huggett, Gustav Leonhardt, Trevor Pinnock, Nicholas McGegan, and Anthony Newman. Maestro Maldonado and L. A. Baroque have been featured on National Public Radio's Performance Today; the Orchestra has also performed in the Berkeley Early Music Festival, as well as other concert series throughout the United States, and at major festivals in England and Germany.

Maestro Maldonado recently appeared as a Guest Conductor with the San Diego Chamber Orchestra during their 2008-09-concert season. He has recorded on the Harmonia Mundi, RCM, Centaur, and Rococo labels.