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Read the story: “Filling the Silence: What Life is Like for 7 Classical Musicians during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
With the recent announcement by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra postponing the remaining live concerts of the 2019-20...
Latest review about conducting V. Bellini’s opera Norma
Vincenzo Bellini’s 1831 opera “Norma” is the epitome of the bel canto genre: It’s all about the singing — and the...
St. Louis Public Radio interview about Video Games concert featuring WashU & UMSL Symphony Orchestras
For about a year, Darwin Aquino has been serving as conductor of the orchestras at both the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Washington University. And on Tuesday evening, the two groups under his direction rehearsed together for the first time ever. Final...
Conducting debut in Ohio with The Cleveland Opera, leading Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
Article published in Cleveland Classical on May 28, 2019 “Although I’ve never led the entire opera, all conductors do concert versions of Porgy and Bess, because the tunes are so popular — ‘Summertime,’ ‘I got plenty o’ nuttin’,’ ‘It ain’t necessarily so.’ And there...
Article as the new Music Director of the Gateway Festival Orchestra
Article published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on July 12, 2019. Dominican conductor Darwin Aquino is the orchestra’s third music director. He’s working with the 50-piece paid orchestra, made up of instrumentalists ranging from university students to seasoned...
When Music Changes Lives – article by Darwin Aquino in ReVista, Harvard Review on Latin America
In 2004, I got a surprising phone call from Santo Domingo on one cold winter night. I was then studying musical composition in Strasbourg, France, a great opportunity for a young Dominican musician. The officials of the recently elected government of my country were...