Miguel del Aguila
COMPOSERSTAGE
“Time and Again Barelas” is del Aguila’s third opera. It displayed his command of an arresting musical vocabulary that is marked by a complex yet infectious rhythmic vitality…”
Albuquerque Journal
“…his works show a modern musical conception with profound ideas and expressivity”
Novoe Vremia, Moscow
“…disarmingly charming…”- Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich
DANCE
CONVERGENCE
choreography Brett Weidlich
Dance ART Ensemble/Ventura County Ballet
CLOCKS I.
Choreography: Minou Lallemand
Onium Ballet Project and Chamber Music Hawaii
CLOCKS II.
Choreography: Minou Lallemand
Onium Ballet Project and Chamber Music Hawaii
CLOCKS III.
Choreography: Minou Lallemand
Onium Ballet Project and Chamber Music Hawaii
CLOCKS IV.
Choreography: Minou Lallemand
Onium Ballet Project and Chamber Music Hawaii
TIME AND AGAIN BARELAS DANCES
choreography: David Vega Chavez
New Mexico Ballet Dancers and New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
DANSAQ
choreography: Mari Fujibayashi/Olivia Rosenkrantz
Tapage Dance Ensemble New York
COLLABORATE
choreography: Paul Hamilton and Caleb Vinson
Fifth House Ensemble
OPERA
TIME AND AGAIN BARELAS I.
Opera in Two Acts
New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
music director: Guillermo Figueroa
New Mexico Symphony Chorus
chorus master: Roger Melone
New Mexico Dancers
stage director.choreographer: David Vega Chavez
set Designer: Valeria Rios,
lighting Designer: John Malolepsy,
costumes: Lawrence F. Schultz
libretto: Digby Wolfe and Miguel del Aguil
Gabriela Garcia as Marcelina
Rafael D’ávila as Ignacio
TIME AND AGAIN BARELAS II.
Opera in Two Acts
TIME AND AGAIN BARELAS III.
Opera in Two Acts
TIME AND AGAIN BARELAS IV.
Opera in Two Acts
TIME AND AGAIN BARELAS V.
Opera in Two Acts
TIME AND AGAIN BARELAS I
Video from Act I
TIME AND AGAIN BARELAS I
Video from Act II
TIME AND AGAIN BARELAS CHORAL SUITE
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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