Neujahrskonzert, Germany

“The young Dominican conductor Darwin Aquino led the orchestra this time and made great work, giving the orchestra three encores as a result”

Allgemeine Zeitung

Orchestre Philharmonique Radio France, Festival Presences

“Aquino in his work “Espacio Ritual” has very well listened to the French composers, Boulez or Varese, developing in this piece a deeply personal language and an inventive mastery for writing to the orchestra”

— La Musique au Jour le Jour

Santo Domingo Music Festival, Dominican Republic

“It was not a surprise the work of the orchestra conducted by Darwin Aquino, who led Vivaldi without baton, Piazzola with impressive energy and Kuusisto with the concentration that requires such a difficult and strange piece for an audience not familiar with contemporary music”

— Diario Libre Newspaper

“The success of the concert rested in the quality of the orchestra under the precise and passionate baton of Darwin Aquino”

— HOY Newspaper

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz, Germany

“These extraordinary concerts had an enormous reception, which has risen the expectations to continuously program this international repertoire with the Mainz Philharmonic Orchestra”

— Mainzer Kultur