This video is an interview with Darwin Aquino Composer and Conductor. In this episode of the Way They Listen we...
Darwin Aquino: The way they listen – Episode 3 – Deep Listening
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Composer News
Una Isla: Dos Mundos, new publication by Darwin Aquino in Cayambis Music Press
Composed in 2015, this work for flute and violin continues Aquino's investigations of the african origins of folk...
Interview about Darwin’s recent compositions with St. Louis Public Radio
When Darwin Aquino was a young boy growing up in the Dominican Republic, his father directed him to choose one...
Suite for Orchestra from Insomnia Ballet
Dominican classics disc 6 / vol. II Historical collection of music by classical composers from the Dominican Republic.
Note on Darwin Aquino at FIU University Graduate School
Classical music is not as big of a tradition in the Dominican Republic as it is in some other locations, and opportunities for young musicians are limited there. “But when you have a passion about something, life sends you the way,” says Darwin Aquino, an FIU graduate...
Darwin Aquino interview with “Stay at Music” (in Spanish)
Maestro Darwin Aquino (Dominican composer, director and violinist) brings PRIMICIAS to Stay At Music and tells us about his inspiration in the rhythms and folk songs of our island to compose.
Read an exciting new paper on Cantata para Amansar la Muerte
Folklore in the Modern Concert Hall: Religion, Tradition, and Cultural Mixture in Darwin Aquino’s Cantata para Amansar la Muerte (Cantata to Tame Death) The purpose of this analysis by Emmanuel Berrido is to explain how Darwin Aquino’s work, Cantata para Amansar la...