Miguel del Aguila

COMPOSER

PERFORMED BY…

“As with much of Aguila’s music, nothing is as straight or explicable as it might seem.
He makes contemporary music of a rugged, easy-to-digest sort” – 
The Los Angeles Times

“brilliant and… provocative. It is fun to listen to” – Santa Barbara News-Press

ORCHESTRAS that perform Miguel del Aguila’s music

This is a partial list. It does not include solo artists, Please support these musicians and help us expand this list by letting us know of your performances of Aguila’s music.

Akron Symphony, Christopher Wilkins
Albany Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
Allentown Symphony, Diane Wittry
American Music Ensemble-Vienna, Hobart Earle
American Philharmonic Orchestra, Gabriel Sakakeeny
American Youth Philharmonic, Daniel Spalding
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Arie Lipsky
Augusta Symphony Orchestra, Dirk Meyer
Azusa Pacific Univ. Otchestra, Christopher Russell, Raphaela Correa De Lacerda,
Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Christopher Wilkins
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Pablo Mielgo
Breckenridge Festival Orchestra, Gerhardt Zimmerman
Brooklyn Philharmonic, Lukas Foss
Budapest Youth Symphony, Imre Kollar
Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnne Falletta, Mathew Kraemer
Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Camerata Panama, Victor Mata
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, Guillermo Figueroa
Charlotte Symphony, (chamber 2020)
Chautauqua Symphony, Uriel Segal
Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio, Garrett Keast
Chelsea Symphony Orchestra, Matthew Aubin
Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
Chicago Sinfonietta, Paul Freeman
Chicago Symphony Orchestra CSO (chamber 2020)
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Eckart Preu
Codarts Symphony Orchestra Rotterdam, Hans Leenders
Cosmopolitan Symphony NY, Tania Leon
Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, Dirk Mayer
Eastern Music Festival Orchestra, José Luis Novo
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, William Eddins
Elmhurst Symphony of  Chicago, Stephen Alltop
Erie Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Kraemer
Fresno Symphony, Christopher Wilkins
Glacier Symphony Orchestra, John Zoltek
Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra, Elias Grandy
Harper Symphony Orchestra, Brian Groner
IDRS Orchestra Ensemble 2010, David Lockington
IDRS Orchestra Ensemble 2017, Mark Dupere
Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Kraemer
Jenaer Philharmonie Orchester Germany, Mark Tardue
Kiev Philharmonic,  Vadim Perevoznikov
Kingsville Symphony Orchestra, Colleen Ferguson
Las Vegas Philharmonic (chamber 2020)
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra LACO (chamber 2020)
LSU Wind Ensemble, Damon Talley
Lancaster Symphony, Stephen Gunzenhauser
Long Beach Symphony, JoAnne Falletta
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlos Miguel Prieto
Lynn University Philarmonia Orchestra, Guillermo Figueroa
Mannes American Composers Ensemble, Lowell Liebermann
Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Eckart Preu
Mendocino Festival Orchestra, Allan Pollack
Mexico City Phyhamonic, Jose Arean
Michigan Philharmonic, Nan Washburn
Michigan State Univ. Orchestra, Jorge Richter
Millikin-Decatur Symphony, William McClain
Minnesota Orchestra (chamber 2020)
Mission Chamber Orchestra, Emily Ray
Modern Music Ensemble – Sydney, Daryl Pratt
Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, G. Figueroa
Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero
National Symphony of Panama, Marcus Parris
New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, Dirk Meyer
New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, Paul Polivnick
New Juilliard Ensemble, Joel Sachs
New Mexico Symphony, Guillermo Figueroa / Roger Melone
New Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirk Muspratt
New West Symphony, Boris Brott, Tania Miller
Newark Symphony Orchestra, Simeone Tartaglione
Northwest Indiana Symphony, Kirk Muspratt
Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Diane Wittry
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Miguel Hearth-Bedoya
Oakland Symphony Orchestra, Michael Morgan
Odessa Philharmonic, (Ukraine)V. Perevoznikov/ H.Earle
Omaha Symphony Orchestra, Ken David Masur
Opera Nova Orchestra, Sean Bradley
OCSA Orange County School of the Arts Orch., Christopher Russell
Orchester der Univarsitat Bremen, Susanne Gläß
Orchestre Nouvelle Generation – Montreal Canada, Airat Ichamouratov
Orchestra of the Americas, Chistopher Wilkins
Orquesta de Cámara de Zapopan, Allen Vladimir Gómez
Orquesta del Conservatorio Nacional de Colombia, Guerassim Voronkov
Orquesta del Principado de Asturias, (Spain), Maximiano Valdes
Orquestra do Theatro São Pedro, Sao Paulo Brazil
Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Rio, Jorge Mester
Orquesta Filarmónica de la ciudad de México, José Arean
Orquesta Filarmónica de Montevideo, Martin Garcia
Orquesta Sinfónica de la UANL, Jesús Medina – Gabriela Diaz Alatriste
Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad de Cuyo Argentina, Rodolfo Saglimbeni
Orquesta Sinfonica de Puerto Rico, Guillermo Figueroa
Orquesta Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo OSESP (Brazil), Giancarlo Guerrero
Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad de Cuyo,  Rodolfo Saglimbeni (Mendoza, Argentina)
Orquesta Sinfónica de Michoacán, Miguel Salmón del Reál
Orquesta Sinfónica de Salta, Glenn Block
Orquesta Sinfónica EAFIT de Medellin, Cecilia Espinosa
Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Colombia, Ernesto Díaz
Orquesta Sinfonica Municipal de Caracas, Rodolfo Saglimbeni
Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica, Alejandro Gutierrez
Orquesta Sinfonica National de Mexico, G. Figueroa
Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble
Philadelphia Virtuosi, Daniel Spalding
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, David Stock
Plymouth Symphony, Nan Washburn
Portland Symphony, Eckart Preu
Quad City Symphony QCSYE, Ernesto Estigarribia
Redwood City Symphony,  Eric Kujawsky
Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra. Iceland
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, Eckart Preu
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Ens, Clark Rundell
Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Morgan
San Antonio Symphony, Christopher Wilkins
Santa Cruz Symphony Orchestra, Diane Wittry
Santa Barbara Symphony, Gisele Ben-Dor
Santa Fe Symphony, Nir Kabaretti
Sarasota Symphony, Leif Bjaland, Dirk Meyer
Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz/Francesco Lecce-Chong
South Bend Symphony, Tsung Yeh
Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra,
Robin Fountain (2018)
Sphinx Virtuosi Ensemble
Spokane Symphony, Eckart Preu
Stamford Symphony, Eckart Preu
Stavanger Symphoniorchestrer, Norway (chamber 2019)
Stockton Symphony, Peter Jaffee
Symphony in the Glen, Arthur Rubinstein
TCU Cello Ensemble, Jesus Castro Balbi
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Earl Lee
Tucson Symphony, Tsung Yeh
Tunghai Symphony ( Taiwan), Annie Chung
Utah Philharmonia Orchestra, Robert Baldwin
Vanderbilt Symphony Orchestra, Robin Fountain
Ventura Music Festival Orchestra, Nuvroj Mehta, Burns Taft
Ventura Symphony, Boris Brott
Virginia Symphony, JoAnne Falletta, Alan Miller
Welsh BBC Symphony,  Odaline de la Martinez
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Mickelthwate

DANCE/THEATER/OPERA ENSEMBLES

 

Partial list

Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater, New York
Chicago Children’s Theater
Dance ART Ensemble, California
Domingo&Luisa Dancers, Colombia
New Mexico Dancers, Albuquerque
Omnium Ballet Project, Hawaii
São Paulo Companhia de Dança (Sao Paulo Dance Company) Brazil
Tapage Dance Ensemble, Mexico
Ventura County Ballet, California

ENSEMBLES that perform Miguel del Aguila’s music

4th Wall Music, Canada
21st. Century Consort
Accento Musicale Ensemble, Switzerland
Ad Libitum Trio, Macedonia
Alcan String Quartet
Alpen Kammermusik Festival Ensemble
Annex Quartet
Âme du vent Trio, Luxenburg
Ansambl Glazbene Staze, Zagreb
Arianna Quartet
Archi String Quartet, Krakow
Archipelago Collective Ensemble, Seattle
Archduke Piano Trio
Arcos Trio
Artonis Piano Trio, Netherlands
Asculta! Woodwind Quintet
Attacca Woodwind Quintet
Audubon Quartet
Aurora Trio, UK
Australia Ensemble, Sidney
Avedis Chamber Music Ensemble, San Francisco
Bach Camerata, Santa Barbara
Bach Dance & Dynamite Society
Baltimore Symphony Chamber Players
Bay View Wind Quintet
Baylor Winds, Texas
Beau Soir Ensemble, DC
Trio Becel, Belgium
Belgrade Philharmonic Quintet
Belmont Camerata
Bergen Woodwind Quintet, MN
Bernal Hill Players
Black Marigold Quintet
Bolivar Soloists Ensemble
Borealis Wind Quintet
Borg Chor Lienz, Austria
Camarada Ensemble
Camerata de las Americas
Camerata Pacifica
Camerata San Antonio
Camerarctica Ensemble, Reykiavik
Caminos del Inka Ensemble
Chenango Ensemble, NY
Chicago Philharmonic Chamber Players
Chicago Pan-American Ensemble
Chinook Wind Quintet, MT
Chrysalis Trio, Australia
Cincopation Wind Quintet, Pittsburgh
Citywinds
Collegium Novum Zurich
Colors Sextet
Comedy String Quartet, UK
Copland HouseEnsemble
Coro del Teatro del Bicentenario
Crossing Borders, Chicago
Cuarteto de la Ciudad de Mexico
Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Da Capo Ensemble, South Korea
Danish Chamber Players, Copenhagen
Davis Piano Quartet
Diamante Trio, AK
Duo Cintemani
Divan Consort
Duo Deconet, Australia
Duo Fae, PA
Duquesne Contemporary Ensemble
East Side Five, NY
Echéa Quartet, London
Elysean Ensemble
Ensamble Tamayo, Mexico
Ensemble 10/10, UK
Ensamblast Cuarteto, Panama
Ensemble de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Sinaloa Mexico
Ensemble Project D7, Seoul, S. Korea
Ensemble Storstrøm, Denmark
Ensemble Zwanzig-Zwölf, Germany
Ensemble Zeitlose Musik, Germany
Entrequatre Guitar Quartet
Epoque String Quartet, Prague
Espectros Trio, Switzerland
Euphonia Ensemble, Canada
Eykamp String Quartet, Chicago
Face The Music Ensemble, NY
Farallon Quintet, California
Trio Festivale
Figueroa Project Ensemble
Fifth House Ensemble, WI
Fine Arts Chamber Payers, Dallas
FivebyFive Ensemble, New York
FoLoCo Trio, Colorado
Fountain Hills Chamber Players
Free Spirits Ensemble of the Raleigh Symphony
Frost Chamber Players
Fry String Quartet
Fulcrum Point Ensemble, Chicago
Gegenwind Quintett
Gliondar Wind Quintet, UK
Gold Coast Concert Chorus
Gryffin Ensemble, Australia
Gabriel Chamber Ensemble
Graffiti Classics, UK
Hammers and Reeds Trio, LA
Harlem Chamber Players, New York
Harmonia Mira Ensemble, Odessa
Hat Trick Trio
Hong Kong Sinfonietta trio
Imani Winds
International Chamber Artists
Intertone Ensemble, Moscow
Invoke Quartet
Iowa Wind Quintet
Ivy Street Ensemble
Jazz Meets Classical Ensemble
JSBM Trio, Austria
Kalabis Quintet, Czech Republic
Kalliope Reed Quintet
Kammerensemble Classic der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Kamor Quartett
Kaunas Piano Trio, Lithuania
Kent Festival Wind Quintet
Kontra Duo
La Mer Trio, Vienna
Lagniappe Trio
Latvian Opera Orchestra Trio, Riga
Ledge Trio, California
Les Retrouvailles String Quartet, Montreal
Light and Shadow Trio, San Francisco
Lyrique Quintette, Arkansas
Lynx Trio, Mexico
Magari Trio, Buenos Aires
Madison String Quartet
Mannes American Composers Ensemble
Meraki Ensemble, Buenos Aires
Mexico City Wind Quintet
Minnesota Orchestra Chamber Players – Andrew Litton
Mississippi Symphony Woodwind Quintet
Modern Music Ensemble, Australia
Momenta Quartet
Moonwinds Ensemble, Spain
Mosa String Quartet, Cleveland
Mottus Quartett, Vienna
Mousai Ensemble
Movere Woodwind Quintet
Music Form The Copland House
Music in the Mountains Ens.CO
Musical Offerings Ensemble, TX
New Arts Trio
New Hollywood String Quartet
New Juilliard Ensemble,NY
New Mexico Symphony Chorus
New Music Agency, NE
New York Chamber Ensemble
North Coast Winds, Cleveland
Nouvelle Ensemble Mo, France
Nugarbage Ensemble
Oakwood Chamber Players
Odeon Quartet
Odessa Conservatory Choir
Ojai Camerata, CA
Oklahoma Wind Quintet
Olmos Ensemble
Ondas Ensemble, Chicago
Onix Ensemble, Mexico
Orlando Chamber Soloists, (Orlando Chamber Players), Rapid City
Pacific Serenades Ensemble
Pacifica Quartet
Pan Harmonia Ensemble, NC
Pentaèdre Quintet, Montréal
Piano Circus, UK
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Prizm Ensemble
Punktum Ensemble, Switzerland
Southwest Chamber Music Pone Ensemble
Prairie Winds
Prism Ensemble
Prismatic Winds, USA
ProMusic Ensemble
ProMusica Chamber Ensemble
Quintet of the Americas
Q-Arte Quartet, Colombia
Quatour Saguenay, Canada
Quatuor Amayères, France
Quinteto de Alientos de Mexico
Quinteto de alientos de la ciudad de Mexico
Quinteto Filarmónico de Montevideo
Quintette a vent Pentaedre
Quintigre Wind Quintet
qWINDett Ensemble Wien, Austria
Rainbow Chamber Players
Raw Goods, UK
Relevents Wind Quintet
S’Illens’ Ensemble, France
Saint Helens String Quartet, WA
Santiago String Quartet, UK
Segue Ensemble, NY
Shiny Woodwind Quintet, Taiwan
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Ensemble, Slovakia
Sociedad de los 5 Vientos
SOLI Chamber Ensemble, TX
Sonneries Ensemble, IL
Sound Affairs/Charlie Barber Ensemble, UK
Sound Impact Ensemble
Sunderman Woodwind Quintet
South Beach Chamber Ensemble, FL
Spring Winds, HI
Tabatha Duo, San Antonio
Tara Winds Quintet
Trio Tastenwind, Germany
Trio VaDiS, Portugal
Telos Trio
Tico Tico Trio, Mexico
Thelema Trio, Belgium
Tonoi Ensemble, Los Angeles
Transatlantic Duo, NY
Tresemble Ensemble, HI
Trio Accord
Trio Alexander
Trio Allegresse
Triocorda, Switzerland
Trio D’Argento, Toronto
Trio FauRé
Trio Fugu, Los Angeles
Trio Giardino Musicale, Weimar, Germany
Trio Incantando, Germany
Trio Internazionale, Chicago
Trio Juvavum, Spain
Trio Ken, Poland
Trio L’Apres Midi, Austria
Trio Lawrence
Trio Lusinea, Switzerland
Trio Manestri, Belgium
Trio R, Brussels
Trio Sanromá, Puerto Rico
Trio Tarantella, Lisbon
Trio The Velum, Belgium
Trio Vermeil, France
Triology Trio, UK
Twenty-five Hours Wind Quintet
UBI-Trio, Germany
USA Woodwind Quintet
Valerius Ensemble, Netherlands
Velluto Quartet, Cleveland
Vento Chiaro Wind Quintet
Ventoso Winds Ensemble
Ventura Master Choral
Verona Quartet, New York
Vientos Dulces Clarinet Quartet
!Viento! Enjsemble, NC
Voices of Change Ensemble, Texas
Voyage en Trio, France
West Texas Wind Ensemble
Western Wind Quintet
Westlake Chamber Ensemble
Windscape Ensemble, NY
WindSync Quintet, USA
Wizards! Double Reed Consort
Xia Quartet
Yellowstone Chamber Players
Zephyrus Ensemble, Mexico

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FALL OF CUZCO premiere

Miguel del Aguila, Giancarlo Guerrero and  Yefim Bronfman FALL OF CUZCO Nashville Symphony Orchestra premiere

MIAMI FLUTE SUITE Premiere

 Miguel del Aguila withTania Leon, Nestor Torres,Todd Vunderink, Julio Bague Mary Megan Peer

as RESIDENT COMPOSER at Chautauqua

Miguel del Aguila with composer Gunther Schuller Chautauqua Festival

Pre Concert Talk

Miguel del Aguila Orquesta sinfonica nacional de Mexico Guillermo Figueroa conductor CONGA performance

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Miguel del Aguila on YouTube

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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

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