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Conga-Line in Hell – (for 15 instruments ensemble) CD title: "Conga-Line in Hell" - Dorian - CD: 93230
Camerata de las Americas, Joel Sachs cond.
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Nostalgica - for bassoon and string quartet
Sunset Song - for bassoon and piano. CD title: "Nostalgica" Centaur CD: CRC2564
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Conga – (for solo piano) CD title: "Piano Dance" - Telarc - CD: 80549 Gloria Cheng, pianist
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Wind Quintet No.2 – CD title: "Discoveries" - Helicon Records Borealis Wind Quintet
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Presto II - (for string quartet) – CD title: "Four, for Tango" - New Albion Cuarteto Latinoamericano
New Albion tel: 415 - 621 5757 e-mail: erco@newalbion.com
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Pacific Serenade - (for clarinet and string quartet) – CD title: "Exchange Latin America" CRI (Composers Recordings Inc CD: 848 Pacific Serenades Ensemble, Gary Gray clarinet (CRI tel: 212 941 9673)
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Conga-Line in Hell - (orchestral version) - CD title: "Conga-line in Hell. Redwood Recordings. Redwood Symphony Orchestra, cond. Eric Kujawsky
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Clocks - (for piano and string quartet) – CD title: "El Tiempo" Global Entertainment-Global Clasics Mexico
CD: GECDI 4111 Onix Ensemble - Mexico
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Sommergesang (Summer Song) - (for oboe and piano) – CD title: "Oboe on the Road" Centaur Records
Mark Weiger oboe, Robert Conway piano
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Clarinet Concerto (for clarinet and orchestra) and:
Herbsttag (for flute, bassoon and harp) and:
Hexen (for bassoon and string orchestra) – CD title: "Theodore. Berger-Miguel del Aguila" - Albany Records CD:Troy 066 American Music Ensemble Vienna, Hobart Earle conductor
Albany Records tel: 800 - 758 1951 or 518 - 453 2205)
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Toccata - (for orchestra) – CD title: "East Meets West" SONY-Austria/ORF/LID
Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra - Hobart Earle, cond.
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Conga-Line in Hell - (for 15 instruments) – CD title: "Batata Coco" Conaculta – FIC Mexico
Camerata de las Americas, Joel Sachs conductor
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Tennessee - (for solo guitar) – CD title: "Permanent Transition" Metro Records Matthew Greif guitar
Metro Records tel: 415 - 487 1361
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Music in a Bottle and
Conga – CD title: "20th Century Dances" Scotwood Music James Miltenberger piano. (jmiltenb@wvu.edu )
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Sonata No.2 - (for solo piano) – CD title: "Piano Music of the Americas" ACA Digital Recordings-Metro Records James Miltenberger piano.
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Toccata (for solo harpsichord) and:
Cuadros de America (for solo harpsichord) CD title: “Marinka Brecelj” KKM Recrodings -Vienna
Marinka Brecelj, harpsichord.
Influences
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"..elegant and affectionate music ..
a delicious send-up of
Minimalism .. with genuine wit.."
(The New York Times)
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"…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)
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"…one of the most intriguing
compositional voices to
come along in recent years…"
(San Antonio Express News)
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"..irresistible rhythms… powerfully propelled
by frantic tempos, pleasantly demented piece..disarmingly genial.."
(San Francisco Sentinel)
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"...cinematic effects..."
(Washington Post)
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"...Wonderfully expressive and
dramatic music..with a fine sense of
direction and drama.."
(American Record Guide)
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"…unusual…superb…"
(Fanfare)
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"…his music dances with incendiary rhythms…with near to obsessive vitality…"
(Wiener Zeitung, Vienna)
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"…disarmingly charming…"
(Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich)
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"…modern musical conception,
profound ideas and expressivity…
The audience welcomed his music with enthusiasm…"
(Novoe Vremia, Moskow)
Record Label
New Albion, Dorian, Telarc, Helicon, Albany, CRI, Centaur, Metro
visit migueldelaguila.com
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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.
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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.
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An active pianist, Miguel del Aguila soloed with several orchestras. His 1980's brilliant debut 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.
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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 17 CD's recorded by first rate artists. Miguel del Aguila is published by Peermusic since 1986, (Theodore Presser distributor).
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Sunset color notes on Pori Jazz Give my life the Jazz and the Melody May you have the Best Summer of your Life http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2838901/ http://www.inbaseline.com/person.aspx?person_id=2473739
Hello there Miguel, as proud performers of the "Pacific Serenade" (both on clarinet as on the tenor) we're happy to add you amongst our friends. Hope all is well with you!
Hello Miguel, thanks for your request. I've played your "Pacific Serenade" in many concerts on the tenor. Really nice piece! Many greetings from Antwerp, Belgium.
6/13/08 - SEDUCTION - for Flute, Clarinet, piano, (World premiere). Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Mineral Point Opera House, Madison, WI
6/15/08 - SEDUCTION - for Flute, Clarinet, and piano. Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Hillside Theater at Taliesin, Spring Green, WI
6/22/08 - WIND QUINTET No.2 - Quintet of the Americas, Queens, NY 3:30 pm
6/23/08 - WIND QUINTET No.2 - Quintet of the Americas, and Masterclass by Miguel del Aguila. New York University, 3 pm and 7 pm, New York, NY
7/7/08 - PACIFIC SERENADE - Federico Palacios Clarinet, 1st International Clarinet Festival 2008 - Athens 2008 Athens International Conservatory Concert Hall, Athens, Greece 9 pm
11/14/08 - 11/15/08 - 11/16/08 TIME AND AGAIN BARELAS - Choral Suite No.2 - WORLD PREMIERE - Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Lancaster, PA
Thank you so much for your advice. I will be sure to rewrite my bio. I actually think writing a bio can be even harder than writing a piece sometimes hahaha.
Also thank you again for putting me in your concert at VC. You have been such a wonderful instructor and mentor to me. I am most grateful for your guidance and support.
