
Conductor
2022-23 Season:
Conductor, New Works Collaborative Opera Theater St. Louis
Music Director, St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra
Assistant & Cover Conductor, Opera Theater St. Louis
Conductor-in-Residence, Washington University
Music Director, Gateway Festival Orchestra
Guest Conductor, Chamber Music Society & St. Louis Ballet
RECENT ENGAGEMENTS – SUMMER 2022

Media
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…
Darwin makes conducting debut with the Florida Grand Opera
Darwin has been invited to conduct the first opera of the FGO’s 2022/23 season: “El Matrimonio Secreto” by Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa, in a new Spanish translation by Darwin Aquino and Benedetta Orsi. But, everything happens with a new and very special Latino...
Article about opera premiere and Darwin’s musical life (In Spanish)
El estreno, en la Gran Opera de Miami, de «El Matrimonio Secreto» de Domenico Cimarosa, uno de los más prolíficos compositores del siglo dieciocho, que llegó a componer ochenta óperas y fue maestro del género «comedia bufa» o comedia cómica, muy popular durante aquella época por su acercamiento a temas populares, sus ágiles dúos y tríos, recitativos hablados y por su risueña trama, marca historia al ser una versión totalmente cantada en español.
Recent concert with Helen Kim, Associate Concertmaster Seattle Symphony Orchestra
The WashU Symphony Orchestra students will perform under the direction of Darwin Aquino, Conductor-in-Residence.
SLSO Stories: SLSO + WashU musicians together with Darwin
The weather couldn’t have been better for the continuation of an annual tradition: an outdoor welcome back concert at Washington University featuring St. Louis Symphony Orchestra musicians.