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"…dependably brilliant…"
(The New Yorker Magazine)
"..elegant and affectionate music ..a delicious send-up of Minimalism ..with genuine wit.."
(The New York Times)
"…One of the West Coast's most promising and enterprising young composers…" "…sonically dazzling…" "…a whirlwind of energy and ideas…" "…a mischievous mix of personalized romanticism and structural self-derailment…" "…a sly radical in formal wear…"
(Los Angeles Times)
"…one of the most intriguing compositional voices to come along in recent years…"
(San Antonio Express News)
"..irresistible rhythms… powerfully propelled by frantic tempos pleasantly demented piece..disarmingly genial.."
(San Francisco Sentinel)
"...cinematic effects..."
Washington Post
"...Wonderfully expressive and dramatic music..with a fine sense of direction and drama.."
(American Record Guide)
"…unusual…superb…"
(Fanfare)
"…his music dances with incendiary rhythms…with near to obsessive vitality…"
(Wiener Zeitung, Vienna)
"…disarmingly charming…"
(Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich)
"…his works show a modern musical conception, profound ideas and expressivity… The audience welcomed his music with enthusiasm…"
(Novoe Vremia, Moskow)
Photo: Donna Granata (Focus on the Masters)
Critics all over the world recognize the compositional voice and talent that is Miguel del Aguila. While he has great respect for the classical tradition, Aguila believes he must create the freshest, most spontaneous music he can. What results is a captivating interplay of classical balance and romantic excess. Aguila's penchant for devising programs for his own works (usually undisclosed) further enhances his highly dramatic style in which musical ideas, always simple and recognizable, are pushed to extremes by propulsive rhythms and adventurous instrumentation.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay; American composer Miguel del Aguila moved to the US in 1978 and after graduating from The San Francisco Conservatory of Music he traveled to Vienna to further music studies. After ten years there, during which time he was active as composer, pianist, and music teacher, he returned in 1992 to live in Southern California. Numerous premieres of his works followed, and in 1994 Los Angeles Times critics chose him "resident music man of the year" and later "One of the West Coast's most promising and enterprising young composers". He was honored with a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award in 1995 and several California Arts Council Fellowships and Residencies from 1996 to 2000. He is also recipient of Meet The Composer Awards, City of Ventura Arts Fellowships, Olympiad Of The Arts Prize, AEMUS, and Jeunesses Musicales awards. Most recently his works received the support of Musics Alive program, The Copland Fundation, and the Argosy Foundation for Contemporary Music.
An active pianist, Miguel del Aguila soloed with several orchestras. His 1980's debut concerts at Carnegie Recital Hall and Merkin Hall in NY, and at Konzerthaus and Bösendorfer Hall in Vienna, marked the beginning of his busy international career. An occasional conductor of his works, he guest-conducted several ensembles and was conductor/music director of Ojai Camerata, CA from 1995-1999. From 2000 to 2004 he was resident composer at the Chautauqua Institution, NY. He is currently composer in residence with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra through a Meet The Composer's Extended Residences Grant.
Aguila's catalog of close to 100 works includes opera, orchestral, choral, solo and chamber works as well as music for theater. To this date, over 50 orchestras, 200 chamber ensembles and an even larger number of soloists include Aguila's music in their active repertoire. Their performances from some of the world's major concert halls, and from over 50 international festivals, have often been broadcast worldwide via internet, radio and TV. Aguila’s music is available on 20 CD's recorded by first rate artists. Miguel del Aguila is published by Peermusic since 1986, (Theodore Presser distributor).
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