Darwin was selected as Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’s new Head of Music for the 2025 Festival Season, working alongside world class artists in four operas and the Center Stage concert with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO)
St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Darwin Aquino and pianist Brian Woods talk with Kathy Lawton Brown about “Viva Rachmaninoff” (Friday, April 25, 2025). This concert features Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, performed by Woods.
Conducting the philharmonic is artistic and musical director Darwin Aquino. Known for his work as a composer and champion of contemporary music, he currently serves as conductor for the New Works Collective with Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
Interlochen, Michigan, 44th Program of the 97th Season. INTERLOCHEN PHILHARMONIC – Darwin Aquino, conductor | Sunday, July 7, 2024 3:00pm, Corson Auditorium
Symposium and performance highlight pioneering Black composer Sept. 27-28
Now available to stream digitally at no cost! Experience the future of opera with three all-new 20-minute works. Stream the recording of the New Works Collective performance. https://opera-stl.org/whats-on/new-works-collective-2024/
Inaugurated as part of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ 2023 season, the New Works Collective is the company’s groundbreaking effort to bring new voices into the world of opera, as well as to connect new audience members with the art form by exploring characters and stories that embody the full spectrum of modern life…
Celebrate the closing of the WCHOF's exhibition, Sound Moves: Where Music Meets Chess, with a unique performance using a custom-made chessboard piano at Saint Louis University's Sinquefield State Room on January 18, 2024, accompanied by musicians from the St. Louis...
Last winter, more than 130 artists applied to create new operas with OTSL. Ultimately, just three multi-genre teams were selected by a panel of St. Louis artists, advocates, and community leaders. Now, those three teams are about to prove just how innovative, inclusive, and fun opera can be…
Chamber Music Society of Saint Louis, under the baton of Darwin Aquino, will accompany the dancers with the score composed by Adolphe Adam. The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch in 2019 called their playing “instrumental brilliance”. Many are members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Kathy Lawton Brown of Classic 107.3 interviewed Music Director Darwin Aquino and Guest Conductor Leon Burke III. Part 2 of the interview has Maestro Aquino describing the program to be performed Sunday, July 16 at 7:30pm at the 560 Music Center, 560 Trinity in University City. All concerts are free to attend!
Sunday, July 2, 2023 3:00pm, Corson Auditorium and Sunday, July 9, 2023 3:00pm, Corson Auditorium