Miguel del Aguila served as composer-in-residence with the New Mexico Symphony during their 2005-06 season.
The residency and its activities centered around the commission of a new opera Time and Again Barelas to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Albuquerque's oldest neighborhood, the predominantly Hispanic Barelas neighborhood.
Read about Time and Again Barelas, del Aguila's residency commission—a celebration the tricentennial of the founding of Albuquerque, NM