MIGUEL DEL AGUILA
COMPOSER
“Vibrant colorful music pulsating with a tremendous rhythmic vitality”
Fanfare
“elegant and affectionate music, a delicious send-up of Minimalism”
The New York Times
my music…
I strive to write music that is sincere and that stirs intense emotions in the performer and the listener. Music that expresses my humanity, my times, my geography and my Latin heritage. Often rhythmically driven and virtuosic, I’m always concerned with its dramatic effectiveness. I don’t think in terms of trends or current styles of composition. The story that my music is telling determines its sound and form.
“dependably brilliant” – The New Yorker Magazine
“sonically dazzling” – Los Angeles Times
“disarmingly genial” – San Francisco Sentinel
“expressive and dramatic” – American Record Guide
“with near to obsessive vitality” – Wiener Zeitung, Vienna
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NEW CD ALBUM RELEASES

BARROQUEADA The Eroica Trio plays Miguel del Aguila
Extreme Tango Productions
The Eroica Trio
Works:
Barroqueada – for piano trio (violin cello and piano)
UPC 085218051556

Tango Postmoderno
Javier Vinasco, Pedro Salcedo, Carlos Betancur
Works:
Tango Trio – for clarinet, bassoon and piano
2022 – 2023 HIGHLIGHTS
Santa Barbara Symphony - Miguel del Aguila - Violin Concerto
Santa Barbara Symphony – Guillermo Figueroa – Nir Kabaretti perform West Coast premiere VIOLIN CONCERTO Granada Theater 2023 concerts
Austin Symphony Orchestra performs THE GIANT GUITAR
Peter Bay conducts Miguel del AGuila’s Giant Guitar at Long Center for the Performing Arts
Austin Texas Dell Hall performance 2023
Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra features SALON BUENOS AIRES
Conductor Matthew Kraemer leads ICO on the new orchestral version of Salon Buenos Aires. Also on the program Demarre McGill flute
Windsync new album of Miguel del Aguila's WIND QUINTETS WORKS
WindSync records Miguel del Aguila’s new album at London’s Abbey Road Studios. New CD includes Quinteto Sinfónico, Sambeada, Blindfold Music and Absent Lights. Releases 2023
Windsync CD #2 on Billboard classical Charts!
It includes an amazing recording of Miguel del Aguila’s Wind Quintet No.2 Bravo Windsync!

WINDSYNC releases Miguel del Aguila WIND QUINTET No.2
All Worlds, All Times
Bright Shiny Things CD
WindSync Quintet
Work:
Wind Quintet No.2
recording new Piano Quintets Album
with Cuarteto Latinoamericano Sally Pinkas Marisa Canales recording CD album for Urtext Digital Classics Futura studio Boston 2022
Imani Winds premieres Blindfold Music
at Chamber Music Northwest and Oregon Bach Festival
Charango Capriccioso new Choreography
Performance at Teatro São Pedro, Brazil by São Paulo Dance Company / São Pedro Theater Orchestra
recording new Piano Quintets Album
with Cuarteto Latinoamericano Sally Pinkas Marisa Canales recording CD album for Urtext Digital Classics Futura studio Boston 2022
Imani Winds premieres Blindfold Music
at Chamber Music Northwest and Oregon Bach Festival
This week 6 concerts featuring MigueldelAguila’s music in Europe
This week SEDUCCIÓN at Fräiraim Festival Luxembourg – two SILENCE performances in Paris, SUMMERSONG in Rotterdam, Netherlands – SUBMERGED in Bath UK – SALONBUENOSAIRES at Glazba Fetival in Croatia

speaking during short residence at HOP Hopkins Center for the Arts
speaking as composer in residence 2022 Hopkins Center for the Arts HOP Dartmouth
Submerged at Arte Amanti International Ch. Music Festival Flanders
5/22/2022 six concerts featuring Aguila’s works by six ensembles in Europe the US, UK and South America. SUBMERGED heads the list with four performances in Belgium, Switzerland, the UK and Italy! Next Thursday also Vienna, Austria.
Eroica Trio’s album Barroqueada up for 65th Grammy consideration Classical Field
Miguel del Aguila Contemporary classical composition / Classical Chamber music small ensemble performance More here: Barroqueada Eroica Trio CD – Miguel del Aguila
Broken Rondo - Staatskapelle Weimar
German first Performance of Broken Rondo by Staatskapelle Weimar at Deutsche Nationaltheater – Weimar, Germany
Quinteto Sinfónico - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Four more live performances by CSO’s in collaboration with Chicago Children’s Theater on Once Upon a Time multimedia production – Symphony Center, Chicago
Charango Capriccioso - Sao Paulo Dance Company
Several danced performances of Charango Capriccioso’s new choreography performed by Theatro Sao Pedro Orchestra – Sao Paulo, Brazil
Malambo - Seattle Symphony
West Coast premiere of Malambo bassoon and orchestra version by Seattle Symphony
Seducción - Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
LACO performs Secucción at Colburn School Theater, Los Angeles
Herbsttag - The Minnesota Orchestra
The Minnesota Orchestra performs Herbsttag on a concert broadcast live from Orchestra Hall by MPR/PBS
Composer in residence - Danish Chamber Players/ Ensembel Storstrøm
Danish Chamber Players/ Ensemble Storstrøm performing several works at Festival Sommermusik på Fuglsang and Holmegaard Glass Museum – Copenhagen, Denmark
Blinfold Music premiere - Imani Winds
Imani Winds premieres a new wind quintet at Chamber Music Northwest and Oregon Bach Festival – Portland, Eugene and Ashland, OR
“a strong individual and vibrant voice that communicates with extraordinary power. His command of the orchestra is extraordinary and his sense of structure and direction create works that are compelling and memorable. One of the most significant voices in our compositional landscape today”
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
2021 Composer in Residence Danish Chamber Players / Ensemble Storstrøm
Thanks Danish Chamber Players /Ensemble Storstrøm for a wonderful year of collaborations on performances of my works at Holmegaard Glass Museum and Festival Sommermusik på Fuglsang. Submerged, Malambo, Salon Buenos Aires, and Clocks among other works
2020 Composer in Residence Orchestra of the Americas
I'm deeply honored to join the great Orchestra of the Americas and conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto as 2020 Composer in Residence. Thrilled to work with these first rate musicians
Back cover Symphony Magazine Fall 2020, and 2021 Musical America Annual Directory, Thank you BMI Classical and Deirdre Chadwick for your support!
For inquiries: m@migueldelaguila.com
Three-time Grammy nominated American composer Miguel del Aguila was born in Uruguay in 1957. In over 130 works that combine drama, driving rhythms and nostalgic nods to his South American roots, he has established himself among the most distinctive and highly regarded composers of his generation. His music, which enjoys over 200 performances annually, has been hailed as “brilliant and witty” (New York Times), “sonically dazzling” (Los Angeles Times) and “expressive and dramatic” (American Record Guide). Recorded on more than 55 CDs, his music has been performed by over 100 orchestras throughout the Americas and Europe, including the Chicago Symphony and Chicago Philharmonic, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; the Kiev, Odessa, Heidelberg, Royal Liverpool, Buffalo, Louisiana and Ciudad de México Philharmonics; and the Welsh BBC, Toronto, Nashville, Seattle, Albany, San Antonio, Long Beach, Fort Worth, Santa Barbara, Caracas and São Paulo Symphonies, and the Orchestra of the Americas.
Conductors who have performed del Aguila’s works include Leonard Slatkin, JoAnn Falletta, Giancarlo Guerrero, Marin Alsop, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Lukas Foss, Gerard Schwarz, Jorge Mester, Guillermo Figueroa, David Allan Miller, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Andrew Litton, Eckart Preu, Dirk Meyer, and José Arean.
Notable among over a thousand chamber ensembles performing his works are the Sphinx Virtuosi, Windscape, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, SOLI, New Juilliard Ensemble, Eroica Trio, Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble, Collegium Novum Zürich, Imani Winds, Fifth House, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, and the Pacifica and Verona string quartets.
Festivals performing his music include Aspen, Cabrillo, Chautauqua, Ravinia, Oregon Bach Festival, Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest, Bregenz Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Budapest Spring, Cervantino, and Prague Spring. In addition to his three Latin Grammy nominations, del Aguila has received a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, a Magnum Opus/Kathryn Gould Award, grants from The Composer New Music USA/Music Alive and the Copland Foundation, and the Lancaster Symphony Composer of the Year award. He has held extensive composer residencies with the Orchestra of the Americas (2020); the Danish Chamber Players/Ensemble Sorstrøm (2021); the Chautauqua Institution Music Festival (2001-2004); and a two-year residency with the New Mexico Symphony provided by a Meet the Composer/Music Alive Award, resulting in the fully staged premiere of his opera Time and Again Barelas (2007). Del Aguila serves as a member of the Barlow Endowment’s Board of Advisors. After graduating from San Francisco Conservatory, del Aguila studied at Vienna’s Universität für Musik. Early premieres in the Musikverein and Konzerthaus were followed by performances in the U.S. in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and The Brooklyn Philharmonic conducted by Lukas Foss. Soon after he settled in Southern California in 1992, the Los Angeles Times praised him as “one of the West Coast’s most promising young composers.” After many years in California, where he taught composition and for three years served as music director of the Ojai Camerata, del Aguila moved to Seattle. - www.migueldelaguila.com