Versatile Argentine-American conductor Steven Aguiló-Arbues enjoys conducting orchestral, operatic, and choral repertoire with equal distinction. He is currently engaged as Music Director and Conductor of Orchestral Programs for the new 2026 Gunnison Orchestral and Vocal Academy Festival (GOVA). He will also be returning to Opera Theatre Saint Louis 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, among others.

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

 

He has also frequently served as Conductor 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, Anything Goes and The Light in the Piazza.

 

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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. Maestro Aguiló-Arbues also frequently serves as a grant panelist for the Opera Division for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). 

 

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, Chaz'men Williams Ali, Kara Shay Thomson, Lisa Chavez and others. 

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He currently offers a unique recital program called Canciones de mi Alma with critically acclaimed Mexican-American baritone Armando Contreras, celebrating Spanish-language song and culture.

 

Click here CANCIONES DE MI ALMA for a preview and booking information.

 

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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