For the painter, see Miguel del Aguila (painter).
Uruguayan-born American composer
Miguel del Águila (born September 15, 1957)[1] is a prolific Uruguay-born Americancomposer of contemporary classical music. He has been nominated three times for Grammys and has received numerous other awards.
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American composer Miguel del Águila (also spelled Miguel del Aguila), was born in 1957 in Montevideo .
In 1978 he moved to California, fleeing Uruguay's 1970's repressive military government. He graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and studied at the Hochschule für Musik and Konservatorium in Vienna, Early premieres of his works in Vienna's Musikverein, Konzerthaus and Bösendorfer halls introduced his music and distinctive Latin sound to European audiences.
In 1989, del Águila's work was performed in New York's Carnegie Recital Hall (now Weill Hall), and Lukas Foss conducted the US premiere of Hexen with the Brooklyn Philharmonic.[2][3] CDs of his works were released on Albany Records and KKM-Austria by 1990, including his Clarinet Concerto, "Herbsttag", and "Hexen".
He returned to the US in 1992 and the Los Angeles Times described him as "one of the West Coast's most promising and enterprisi
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