Season 2022-23
Conductor
- Conductor, Florida Grand Opera (Il Matrimonio Segreto – D. Cimarosa)
- Conductor, New Works Collaborative Opera Theater of St. Louis
- Guest Conductor, Interlochen Center for the Arts
- Music Director, St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor-in-Residence, Washington University
- Music Director, Gateway Festival Orchestra
- Guest Conductor, Chamber Music Society & St. Louis Ballet
- Cover Conductor Opera Theater of St. Louis (Così Fan Tutte, Treemonisha & Center Stage)
Composer
- Guest Composer, Orquesta Sinfonia de Heredia in Costa Rica
- Commissioned Composer, Chamber Project St. Louis
- Commissioned Opera Translator, Florida Grand Opera
- Guest Composer, Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico
- Guest Composer, San Francisco Civic Symphony

About Darwin
Known for his charismatic energy and musical versatility as a conductor and composer, Darwin Aquino’s career has taken him to orchestra halls and opera theaters across Europe, United States and Latin America. His constant presence as a Dominican artist in multiples stages is seen as a bright light for diversity and inclusion in classical music…
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Premiere of Darwin’s work for Solo Percussion
David Fernandez, Percussions | Recorded at the Centro Social por la Musica, Caracas, Venezuela | April 2023
Interview: STLPHIL premieres Jocelyn Hagen’s music
Darwin Aquino, the Music Director of the The Saint Louis Philharmonic and Leanne Magnusen Latuda, Artistic & Executive Director of the Saint Louis Women’s Chorale, spoke with Kathy Lawton Brown about their joint concert on April 28 that features music of Benjamin Britten, Maurice Ravel, and two St. Louis premieres: “Seis Sones Sencillos” by Carlos Fariñas and Antonio María Romeu and “The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci” by Jocelyn Hagen…
Darwin’s conducting debut with OTSL
Last year, Opera Theatre of St. Louis started an experiment. The first fruits of that experiment can be seen March 16-18 at COCA’s Catherine B. Berges Theatre. The creative team also includes conductor Darwin Aquino and choreographer Kirven Douthit-Boyd…
Lunga Pandemia for orchestra selected for 2023 premiere in San Francisco
Civic Symphony: Spring Concert / Sunday, March 26, 2023 – 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
Herbst Theatre 401 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA, 94102
Darwin makes conducting debut with the Florida Grand Opera
Darwin has been invited to conduct the first opera of the FGO’s 2022/23 season: “El Matrimonio Secreto” by Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa, in a new Spanish translation by Darwin Aquino and Benedetta Orsi. But, everything happens with a new and very special Latino...
Article about opera premiere and Darwin’s musical life (In Spanish)
El estreno, en la Gran Opera de Miami, de «El Matrimonio Secreto» de Domenico Cimarosa, uno de los más prolíficos compositores del siglo dieciocho, que llegó a componer ochenta óperas y fue maestro del género «comedia bufa» o comedia cómica, muy popular durante aquella época por su acercamiento a temas populares, sus ágiles dúos y tríos, recitativos hablados y por su risueña trama, marca historia al ser una versión totalmente cantada en español.