Miguel del Aguila

🎻💫🎵 Tonight and tomorrow the Noord Nederlands Orchestra performs Miguel del Aguila’s Broken Rondo for English horn in Stadskanaal and Sneek, with Nadine Bults as soloist and Eivind Gullberg Jensen conducting. The exciting program includes works by Brahms and Beethoven. See you there!  

Miguel del Aguila - When Sound Left • Op. 141 — A New Quintet for a Noisy World What would happen if SOUND itself—every whisper, every melody, every voice—simply walked away? That was the question that sparked my new quintet, When Sound Left, a 15 minute work premiering this April through a consortium of four remarkable ensembles: Central Wind Quintet, Imani Winds, Winds5, and the Olmos Ensemble. I imagined SOUND as a living being, exhausted by how humans misuse it: the lies, the shouting, the careless noise we fling into the world without thinking. In the story I wrote to accompany the music, SOUND finally has enough and leaves us in absolute silence. Is it science fiction? A children’s tale? A moral fable for adults? It’s all of these. We live surrounded—and often overwhelmed—by sound. We depend on it to communicate, yet we sometimes weaponize it. The story asks listeners to reflect on how we use our voices, how easily we harm our environment, and how only collective effort can guid...

✨ More April 2026 Performances of Music by Miguel del Aguila ✨ https://migueldelaguila.com/events-concerts-performances/ Miguel del Aguila •Brahms • Beethoven–Noord Netherlands Orchestra BROKEN RONDO Nadine Bults English horn Eivind Gullberg Jensen, conductor #MiguelDelAguila #BrokenRondo #AmericanComposer #ContemporaryClassical #OrchestralMusic #LivingComposers #ClassicalMusicLive #NoordNederlandsOrkest #NadineBults #EnglishHorn #EivindGullbergJensen #ModernClassical #NewMusicToday 4/4 — 2:00 PM — Miami, FL MIAMI FLUTE SUITE Alyssa Mercedes Mena, flute Knight Center, Frost School of Music University of Miami Livestream available 4/10 — 7:00 PM — Portland, OR MIAMI FLUTE SUITE — flute & piano Alexa Still, flute • Susan DeWitt Smith, piano Irvin Levin Performance Hall Greater Portland Flute Society Fair 4/11 — 7:00 PM — Boston, MA TRANSOCEÁNICA — reed quintet Kalliope Reed Quintet CROMA Space 4/12 — 4:00 PM — Newburyport, MA TRANSOCEÁ...

🌍✨ Some APRIL PERFORMANCES of Miguel del Aguila’s music Friends, April takes my music to some beautiful corners of the world — across the US, Europe, and all the way to Australia. A special highlight is the Noord Netherlands Orchestra performing Broken Rondo 4/4/2026 – 2:00 pm MIAMI FLUTE SUITE Alyssa Mercedes Mena, flute Knight Center, Frost School of Music University of Miami — Miami, FL 4/10/2026 – 7:00 pm MIAMI FLUTE SUITE (flute & piano) Alexa Still, flute • Susan DeWitt Smith, piano Irvin Levin Performance Hall Greater Portland Flute Society Fair — Portland, OR 4/12/2026 – 7:00 pm TORRENTIAL RAINDANCE (flute & piano) Robert Cart, flute • Matthew Mainster, piano Friends of Music Series — Camden, ME 4/14/2026 – 7:30 pm SUBMERGED (harp & accordion) Ines Ringe, accordion • Kathrin Montero Küpper, harp Seniorenresidenz Augustinum Dortmund Festsaal Dortmund, Germany 4/23/2026 – 8:00 pm 4/24/2026 – 8:15 pm ...

🎻 🎶 ✨ Join us this weekend for two powerful concerts with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra! JoAnn Falletta leads the orchestra in a vibrant program featuring my Concierto en Tango for cello and orchestra, performed by the extraordinary Roman Mekinulov. Get your tickets! See you there at Kleinhans Hall. Info: https://bpo.org/event/shostakovich-no-5/2026-02-06/ Performances: • Feb 6, 2026 – 10:30 AM • Feb 7, 2026 – 7:30 PM Kleinhans Hall, Buffalo, NY #MiguelDelAguila #ConciertoEnTango #BuffaloPhilharmonic #JoAnnFalletta #RomanMekinulov #KleinhansHall #ContemporaryClassical #celloconcerto #LiveOrchestra #BuffaloNY  #Americancomposers #ClassicalMusicConcerts  

✨ 🎹 Honored to be named WSMTA’s 2026 Commissioned Composer of the Year . Grateful for this recognition and excited to share # InvisibleVariations , a set of progressive, didactic piano variations that can be played by beginners, intermediates, and as a full concert work by advanced pianists. I look forward to its premiere this June by the wonderful #Lark Powers . Thank you, #WSMTA, for supporting new American music and the composers who create it. - https://wsmta.org/commissioned-composer-of-the-year-2/ #MigueldelAguila #AmericanComposer #ContemporaryClassical #LivingComposers #WSMTA #CommissionedComposer #NewMusicUSA #ModernClassicalMusic #PianoPremiere #InvisibleVariations MigueldelAguila, AmericanComposer, ContemporaryClassical, LivingComposers, WSMTA, CommissionedComposer, NewMusicUSA, ModernClassicalMusic, PianoPremiere, InvisibleVariations  

🌎 February brings more performances of my music, and I’m excited to invite you to hear these incredible musicians bring to life these works, each in their own way. Come join us and say hello if you are nearby! -  Miguel del Aguila 2/6 – Torrential Raindance Robert Cart & Miles Graber, piano Timucua Arts Foundation – Orlando, FL 2/6 – Concierto en Tango Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra JoAnn Falletta, conductor • Roman Mekinulov, cello Kleinhaus Hall – Buffalo, NY 2/7 – Concierto en Tango Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Falletta • Mekinulov Kleinhaus Hall – Buffalo, NY 2/13 – Herbsttag Blaikie • Sommer • Katahara Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings Series Hagopian W. – Detroit, MI 2/14 – Wind Quintet No. 2 Greenville Symphony Quintet Gunther Theater – Greenville, SC 2/16 – Wind Quintet No. 2 Greenville Symphony Quintet Gunther Theater – Greenville, SC 2/20 – Broken Rondo Brittany Harrington, bassoon Puget Sound Wind Ensemble • Gerard Morris, conducto...