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DARWIN AQUINO,

CONDUCTOR - COMPOSER

205 W. 88th St., Suite 13A*New York, NY*10024*646-620-1313*305-259-4398(fax)*Email: [email protected]

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Darwin Aquino is a recognized Dominican conductor and composer seen internationally as one of the top

rising Latin American artists, in both symphonic and opera fields. Aquino is enjoying a vibrant career after

winning the prestigious Premio Soberano award as Successful Dominican Artist Abroad. For the 2017-2018

season, he has been appointed as Music Director for Winter Opera St. Louis, Guest Conductor with the

Philharmonishes Staatsorchester Mainz and Saarlandisches Staatsorchester (Germany), the National

Symphony of Panama, Camerata Washington Heights in New York and for “Il Volo” concerts in the

Dominican Republic.

During the past years Aquino has been invited to conduct the Palm Beach Symphony Orchestra, the

National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, Winter Opera St. Louis (“Il Trovatore”, “Carmen”), FIU Opera

Theater (“L’Etoile”), Filarmónica Boca del Rio in Mexico, Alfredo de Saint Malo Festival Orchestra in

Panama, Florida Lakes Symphony Orchestra, among others. Since 2014, Aquino has been constantly

invited by internationally acclaimed Maestro Ramon Tebar to be his cover conductor for the Florida Grand

Opera and Opera Naples (“Barber of Seville”, “Don Pasquale”, “Norma”, “Carmen”, “Un Ballo in Maschera”,

“La Boheme”). He has worked with soloists such as Rachel Barton Pine, Robert Davidovici, Maria Kanyova,

Kemal Gekic, Jorge Pita Carreras, Shari Mason, and Roland Baldini, being the first conductor in his country

to premiere Anton Bruckner’s symphonies.

In 2015, he was selected among many international composers for the premiere of his orchestral piece

“Espacio Ritual” by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, during the Festival “Presences” at La

Maison de la Radio in Paris. The Latin American Collegium of Composers and the Caribbean Composers

Forum joined Aquino as their youngest member for his outstanding achievements in composition. Recently,

was invited to La Habana, Cuba, as one of the judges for the Composition Prize Casa de las Americas.

Some of his international composition prizes include: “Musici Mojanesi” in Italy, three “Premios Nacionales

de Musica” and two “Premios de Composicion Academica” in the Dominican Republic, “Hildegard Behrens

Young Artist” and “Arts Advocacy Award” in the United States. In 2008, the Dominican Ministry of Culture

appointed Aquino as the first composer in residence of the National Symphony Orchestra. The complete

recordings of his works are found on three albums: “Espacio Ritual” (CD 2008), “Congofonia” (CD 2012)

and “Musica Sacra” (DVD 2011).

Aquino’s compositions have premiered in the last couple of years by the Orchestre Philharmonique de

Radio France, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, the

Mainz Philharmonic in Germany, the Santo Domingo Music Festival Orchestra, the Dominican National

Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Filarmónica Boca del Rio in Mexico, the National Symphony Orchestra

in Salvador and the Música Sacra Philharmonic. His chamber music is frequently performed at international

festivals such as, the Festival Presences in Paris, the New Music ISCM in Miami, Latin American Music

Festival in Venezuela, SMASH Salamanca in Spain, the Las Americas in Concert at the Mannes College

of Music in New York, the International Forum of New Music in Mexico and North South Consonance in

New York.

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Deeply interested in music education and social transformation through classical music, Maestro Aquino

has served as Director of the National Conservatory of Music, Music Director of the National Youth

Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the “Sistema” in his homeland the Dominican Republic.

Maestro Jose Antonio Abreu, founder of the world-known Venezuelan Sistema, refers to Aquino as “a great

conductor, excellent composer and eminent violinist. A pioneer for classical music”. The Youth Orchestra

of the Americas (YOA) chose him as founder violinist, guest conductor and composer, for many concert

tours throughout the Americas and for special performances at Carnegie Hall.

For his outstanding work with the Latin American musical youth was elected as Dominican international

representative for the Orquesta Juvenil Centroamericana (OJCA), Iberorquestas and Jeneusses Musicales

International (JMI). In 2011, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University

invited Aquino as a distinguished conductor and speaker for the conference “Youth Orchestra of the

Americas: case study of social entrepreneurship”.

MIA Artists Management represents Darwin Aquino in the United States. He studied composition at the

Conservatoire National du Strasbourg in France with Italian Maestro Ivan Fedele. Later he was appointed

Assistant Conductor of the Florida International University (FIU) Symphony Orchestra in the United States,

under the baton of Maestro Grzegorz Nowak, where he graduated with a Master in Orchestral Conducting

and was distinguished by unanimous vote of the faculty with the “Graduate Performer Award”. In 2017 the

University of Missouri St. Louis has distinguished Aquino appointing him as full-time faculty with the

“Director of Orchestral Studies” position, where he conducts the University Symphony Orchestra and the

New Music Ensemble.

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CATALOGUE OF COMPOSITIONS

• A Trote (1998) duet for violins

• Carrusel (1998) for violin and violoncello

• Celdas (2000) for horn and piano

• Conjugacion No. 3 (2002) for violin and piano

• Suite del Ballet Insomnio (2003) for orchestra

• Las Metamorfosis de Makandal (2005) for winds, piano and percussion

• La Nuit des Sens (2005) for violin, violoncello and piano

• Ountó (2006) for flute and violoncello

• Articulata (2006) for violin and violoncello

• White Mechanism (2006) for piano, in memoriam Gyorgy Ligeti

• Espacio Ritual (2007) for orchestra

• 3 x 4 - Jeux des Cordes vides (2007-2008) for violin, viola and violoncello

• Congofonía (2008) for Orchestra

• La Mision (2009) for narrator, violin and piano

• Sarandunga (2010) for eight violoncellos

• YOAminicana (2010) for orchestra

• Lluvia Antillana: a tropicaine kuartet (2010 - 2011) for strings quartet

• Siete Cuentos de Juan Bosch (2011) for violin, cello and piano

• Jacana per Tessitura (2011) for violin solo

• Cantata for Taming Death (2011) for soprano, tenor, mixed choir and orchestra, In memoriam of Carlos Piantini

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CATALOGUE OF COMPOSITIONS(CONT.)

• Vom Imaginatio Folkloricus (2013) for violin and violoncello, in memoriam Josue Santana

• En el Mejor Momento de mi Vida, Chacona Rota (2013) for violoncello solo

• Perfume, song cycle (2013) for mezzosoprano and piano

• Como un Vestido Ajeno (2014) for soprano and viola

• Una Isla: Dos Mundos (2015) for flute, violin and exotic percussion

TRANSCRIPTIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS OF LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC

(Violin, Violoncello and Piano trio*)

• Tres Preguntas* (Luis Mena)

• Danza Loca* (Rafael Bullumba Landestoy)

• Mini Vals* (Rafael Bullumba Landestoy)

• Jugueteando* (Rafael Bullumba Landestoy)

• Elegía* (Ramon Diaz)

• Sarambo* (Julio Alberto Hernandez)

• Ensueño* (Julio Alberto Hernandez)

• Romanza No. 1* (Julio Alberto Hernandez)

• Preludio No. 2 Op 42* (Enrique de Marchena)

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TRANSCRIPTIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS OF LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC(CONT.)

• Dulce Recuerdo* (Julio Alberto Hernandez)

• A la caída de la Tarde (Jose Dolores Cerón / Manuel Simó) for violin and piano

• Dulce Recuerdo (Julio Alberto Hernandez) for clarinet, harp and string quartet

• Tico – Tico Non Fuba (Brazilian Choro) for two violins, clarinet and cello

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REVIEWS

“Aquino’s conducting was rousing and dominant, carrying Verdi’s rich score in the capable hands of the Winter

Opera orchestra”

Ladue News, St. Louis

“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, Germany

“Aquino 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, France

“Congratulations to Aquino, who brought all this together in a manner to do justice to Verdi”

BWW Opera World, United States

“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, Dominican Republic

“An excellent support and professional sound from the symphony orchestra, conducted by Darwin Aquino”

The Miami Herald, United States

“Down in the pit, conductor Darwin Aquino leads the orchestra in a very polished interpretation of the score. Without

being a large ensemble they produced a satisfyingly robust sound”

Stage Left, United States

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

Aquino”

HOY Newspaper, Dominican Republic

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