Argentinean-American Steven Aguiló-Arbues enjoys an active career as a conductor, chorus master, vocal coach and recitalist. He is currently engaged as Conductor and Director of Orchestral Programs for the inaugural 2026 Gunnison Orchestral and Vocal Academy (GOVA). He will also be returning to Opera Theatre Saint Louis, joining the music staff as Cover/Assistant Conductor on productions of Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet and Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza, as well as conducting scenes in their Center Stage Concert with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. He recently served as Artistic Director and Conductor for Opera Fort Collins for the past four seasons, where conducting engagements included Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Bizet’s Carmen, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Manuel de Falla's La vida breve, Floyd's Susannah and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

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Mo. Aguiló-Arbues has also served as the Program and Music Director of Studio Artists at Sarasota Opera for three seasons as well as a Cover/Assistant Conductor for five seasons, working on productions such as Puccini's Turandot and Tosca, Verdi's Rigoletto, Bizet's Carmen and Le pêcheurs de perles, Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites and more.

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Other past engagements include Associate Conductor and Chorus Master for Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors with Central City Opera (3 consecutive seasons), Conductor and Chorus Master of the Crested Butte Summer Classics Festival (formerly known as the Crested Butte Music Festival), Assistant Conductor/Principal Coach Pianist with Opera Colorado and Coach Pianist with The Atlanta Opera.

 

He has also frequently served as Conductor/Chorus Master with Boulder Opera Company, Artistic Director/Conductor with The Renaissance Project Choir, and has been a Conductor for Denver’s Inside the Orchestra since 2012. He enjoys serving as guest conductor with other regional orchestras as well.

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Additional summer festival work includes Festival Amadeus (Montana), Miami Music Festival, Creede Musical Arts Collective, and Centro Studi Lirica (Italy). His interest in American musical theatre has also led him to prepare productions of Oklahoma!, A Chorus Line, Pippin, The Music Man and Anything Goes.

 

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Maestro Aguiló-Arbues has frequently collaborated in masterclasses and studio coachings with renowned artists including Renata Scotto, Marylin Horne, Thomas Hampson, Nico Castel, Marni Nixon, Martin Katz, Samuel Ramey, Ubaldo Fabbri, Martha Eggerth, Robert Cowart, David Syrus, Brian Zeger, Richard Danielpour, and members of the Takács String Quartet, among others. 

 

He has coached singers who have gone on to win the Grand National Finals of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition as well as sing at opera companies around the world, including the:

 

-Metropolitan Opera in New York City

-Wiener Staatsoper

-Teatro alla Scala

-Deutsche Oper Berlin

-Royal Opera House Covent Garden

-Opéra national de Paris

-Lyric Opera of Chicago

-Washington National Opera

-San Francisco Opera 

-Santa Fe Opera

-Houston Grand Opera 

-Oper Frankfurt

-English National Opera

-Zürich Opernhaus

-Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

-Salzburg Festival

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Students that he has coached have gone on to study at institutions such as:

-The Juilliard School

-Cincinnati Conservatory of Music

-The Manhattan School of Music

-Mannes School of Music

-University of Southern California

-Yale

-Indiana University, Bloomington

-Peabody Institute​

-Academy of Vocal Arts

 

His love for art song and contemporary works have also led him to work with Art Song Colorado (in collaboration with Chamber Orchestra of the Springs) as a conductor, recitalist, vocal coach and recording producer. He has also taught and worked at institutions like the Manhattan School of Music, Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and University of Colorado Boulder. 

 

As a recitalist, he has worked with distinguished artists such as Michael Mayes, Ryan Speedo Green, Jack Swanson, Anna Christy, Mika Shigematsu, Daniel Belcher, Megan Marino, Armando Contreras, Chaz'men Williams Ali, Kara Shay Thomson, Lisa Chavez and others.

 

Mo. Aguiló-Arbues has had the privilege of studying under notable conducting pedagogues including Edoardo Müller at San Diego Opera, Larry Rachleff, and David Gilbert. In 2016, he was chosen as an orchestral conducting fellow at the Miami Music Festival. He earned his Professional Studies Certificate and Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.  He currently resides in Colorado with his wife and daughter.

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