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,
conductor 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. Aguila’s catalog of over 70
works includes opera, orchestral, choral, solo and chamber works as well as incidental music for
theater and film. Premieres of these works have been broadcast worldwide by radio and TV.
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