Chamber music concert, Thursday, October 24
Darwin Aquino in the Latin American Music Festival in Caracas, Venezuela
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New 2024 Concert with the Interlochen Philharmonic Orchestra
Interlochen, Michigan, 44th Program of the 97th Season. INTERLOCHEN PHILHARMONIC – Darwin Aquino, conductor | Sunday, July 7, 2024 3:00pm, Corson Auditorium
Conducting Julia Perry’s music in (Re)Discovering
Symposium and performance highlight pioneering Black composer Sept. 27-28
Darwin conducts the 2024 New Works Collective at OTSL
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…
Seduction, Deception, Madness!: Conducting Giselle
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.
Catch Darwin on Classic 107.3 FM
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!
Two new concerts at the Interlochen Center for the Arts
Sunday, July 2, 2023 3:00pm, Corson Auditorium and Sunday, July 9, 2023 3:00pm, Corson Auditorium
Video Lecture: Dominican Folklore in Darwin’s compositions (En Español)
Introduction to Music of the 20th and 21st centuries course. Module: “Dominican folklore in today’s music”, taught by Darwin Aquino. (in Spanish)
Article with the St. Louis Magazine about Gateway Festival Orchestra
Get to know the two conductors behind this year’s Gateway Festival Orchestra summer concert series. The Gateway Festival Orchestra, a ‘cultural treasure’ that has become a staple to St. Louis summers…
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…