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El espectáculo, de la compañía belga NeedCompany, estará el sábado y el domingo en el Auditorio de Tenerife

La Salita programa para este fin de semana Un sublime error. Una recapitulación del pasado, de la compañía belga NeedCompany. El espectáculo, un monólogo escrito para el actor Gonzalo Cunill, se podrá disfrutar este sábado (día 25) y el domingo (día 26) a las 19:30 horas en el espacio que Auditorio de Tenerife ha habilitado para albergar teatro de forma regular. Las entradas están a la venta a un precio general de ocho euros y hay varios descuentos disponibles.

Coproducida por el Festival Temporada Alta de Girona, el Heartbreak Hotel  de Barcelona y el Teatro de La Abadía de Madrid, Un sublime error está basada en todos los personales masculinos ligeramente perdidos de la obra de Jan Lauwers, autor y director de la pieza. Es un retrato íntimo de un hombre que mira al mundo con asombro y ni siquiera logra entender por qué él también forma parte del mismo.

Para Lauwers, “esta pieza es sobre la amistad”. “Los tres retratos de esta historia son parte de mí mismo: están basados en mis primeros trabajos teatrales y en las amistades que he ido atesorando a lo largo de mi trabajo”, explica el dramaturgo. En Un sublime error uno de los personajes dice que es mucho más difícil estar siempre enfadado que esconderse detrás de una sonrisa. "Con esta pieza he intentado ver esta sonrisa no tanto como un acto de cobardía, sino como un arma para la defensa de la propia humanidad", explica Lauwers.

Entre las obras más conocidas de Lauwers destacan La habitación de Isabella, La tienda de las langostas, Morning Song, Ulrike y La trilogía de la canción de la serpiente, entre muchas otras. Esencialmente, toda su obra se basa en una búsqueda para esbozar un retrato lo más completo posible de la persona con quien esté colaborando en ese momento. De hecho, para Lauwers tienen la misma importancia el personaje y la persona que da vida al personaje.

Las obras de Lauwers se meten realmente en la piel de sus personajes como individuos, buscando siempre la forma de trascender los dogmas contemporáneos en cuestiones sobre diversidad e identidad. Al hacerlo, sitúa la naturaleza humana en un primer plano y en el centro. El fracaso, el amor, la lucha y los problemas grandes y pequeños siempre ocupan un lugar especial.

Needcompany es una compañía que fue fundada en 1986 en Bélgica por los artistas Jan Lauwers y Grace Ellen Barkey. En 2001, se unió al grupo Maarten Seghers. De esta manera, Lauwers, Barkey y Seghers son la esencia de la compañía y abarcan todo su trabajo artístico: teatro, danza, interpretación, arte visual, escritura... Sus creaciones se interpretan en los escenarios nacionales e internacionales.

Desde el principio, Needcompany se ha presentado a sí misma como una empresa internacional, multilingüe, innovadora y multidisciplinar. Su trabajo gira en torno al artista individual y se basa en el proyecto artístico, en la autenticidad, en la necesidad y en el significado. El propio medio se cuestiona de forma continua, y la calidad del contenido que se transmite se examina sin cesar respecto a la forma que adopta. Needcompany tiene un especial protagonismo en el debate social nacional e internacional en torno a la urgencia y la belleza del arte.

La programación de La Salita continúa el 8 y 9 de febrero con Electra de Sófocles, Premio Max al Mejor Espectáculo Revelación y Mejor versión para su directora, Fernanda Orazi. Y los días 22 y 23 de febrero tendrá lugar Lady Anne, a partir de Ricardo III de Shakespeare, interpretada por Elisabet Gelabert e Inma Nieto, quien también firma el texto y la dirección.

Las entradas se pueden adquirir en www.auditoriodetenerife.com, en la taquilla de lunes a viernes de 10:00 a 17:00 horas y sábados de 10:00 a 14:00 horas y de forma telefónica llamando al 902 317 327 en el mismo horario. Hay descuentos disponibles para menores de 30 años, abonados de Ópera de Tenerife y usuarios de silla de ruedas.

The show ˋLost Lettersˊ, led by the National Dance Award winner, will be performed this Sunday at the Symphony Hall.

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers this Sunday (19 January), at 7:30 p.m., at the Symphony Hall the show Lost Letters by Lucía Lacarra Ballet. The newly formed dance group is set to premiere a captivating piece featuring eight dancers, along with Matthew Golding, who serves as both a dancer and choreographer and Lucía Lacarra herself. Lacarra is a winner of the National Dance Prize and has recently been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts. Notably, tickets for the performance have been sold out for three weeks.

Lost Letters marks the first production by the Lucía Lacarra Ballet. The piece tells a poignant story that explores lost connections and encourages reflection on the power of communication. Through the dancers' technical skill and artistic expressiveness, "Lost Letters" takes the audience on a visually stunning emotional journey. The innovative choreography, coupled with a captivating selection of music from composers such as Rachmaninoff and Max Richter, creates an atmosphere that transports the audience into a realm of deep emotions.

Throughout history, handwritten letters from the front lines during wartime were a vital link between soldiers and their families. However, what happens if one of those letters gets lost? Based on a real letter written by First World War gunner Frank Bracey to his wife, Win, "Lost Letters" imagines how her fate might have changed had she never received the correspondence from her beloved husband.

Lost Letters transforms this true story into a unique narrative for a ballet production. The dancers Francesco Forcina, Gabriel Martínez, Joseph Peñaloza, Meireles Díaz, Manuela Medeiros, Lucía Castellano, Eva Nazareth Suárez, and Itziar Ducajú will join Lacarra and Golding on stage.

The Lucía Lacarra Ballet is an exciting new initiative that blends Lacarra's artistic skill and creative vision with the beauty and power of classical ballet. The company, consisting of ten dancers, aims to uphold the highest artistic excellence and professionalism standards. Its primary goal is to stir emotion, inspire, and connect with new generations of dance enthusiasts.

The event will take place this Sunday (19 January) at 5 p.m. in the Auditorium Francisco Álvarez Abrante in La Perdoma.

 The programme Teatro Aficionado (Amateur Theatre) of the Auditorio de Tenerife celebrates its twentieth anniversary this Saturday [19 January] at the Auditorium Francisco Álvarez Abrante in La Perdoma, municipality of La Orotava. The upcoming event is expected to be attended by José Carlos Acha, the Regional Minister of Culture for the Tenerife Island Council, and will feature representatives from various groups involved in amateur theatre in Tenerife.

During the meeting, the Teatruva group from the Association ‘Fiesta de la Vendimia de La Perdoma’ will perform the play "La vida privada de mamá" (Mum's Private Life) by Víctor Ruiz Iriarte. Additionally, several collectives will receive diplomas, including Teatro Nova from Tegueste; the elderly association Tercera Edad Guanche, Flor y Palma from La Orotava; La Jara from Arico; Sucédete Teatro from Candelaria; and the university association Apeiron Teatro from La Laguna.

The Teatro Aficionado (Amateur Theatre) program is part of the Educational and Social Area of the Auditorio de Tenerife. It brought together 114 participants in 2024 under the guidance of teachers Irene Pérez, Gregorio Bonilla, Wame Gutiérrez, and Eusebio Galván. Teatro Aficionado aims to foster an interest in theatre as a hobby and to support local associations in producing theatrical plays. The program also encourages communication, the exchange of ideas, and creativity among its members, who are affiliated with youth collectives, cultural groups, women's associations, and neighbourhood organizations.

The main objectives of the program are to promote an appreciation for theatre across various social and cultural groups, to increase public attendance and appreciation of theatrical performances, to enhance the technical and artistic quality of amateur theatre groups, and to create collaborative work groups necessary for play production.

La compañía La Sísmica  exhibe los avances en el proyecto ˋEl yo, el tú y los seísmosˊ tras diez días en La Salita del Auditorio

La compañía La Sísmica, compuesta por Koset Quintana y Yiyo Ramírez, presenta este viernes (día 17) a las 19:30 horas en el Auditorio de Tenerife los avances de su proyecto El yo, el tú y los seísmos. Se trata de la muestra pública del trabajo que ambos artistas canarios llevan desarrollando en La Salita desde el pasado día 7, una residencia que cuenta con la colaboración del Laboratorio de Artes Vivas y Ciudadanía de Canarias (LAV-C). La entrada es libre hasta completar aforo.

Koset Quintana, enfocada en el movimiento corporal, y Yiyo Ramírez, especialista en malabares y circo, son dos artistas que han fusionado sus prácticas individuales para crear una compañía que explora la relación entre el cuerpo, los objetos y el espacio. Ambos, formados en Arte Dramático, han llevado su formación actoral a nuevas dimensiones, desdibujando las fronteras entre la danza y el circo; o entre cualquier disciplina.

Para El yo, el tú y los seísmos han querido entablar una relación, crear un mundo nuevo, buscar lo común en lo desigual y formar un vínculo. En este proceso, fondo y forma se abrazan, desde la manipulación del objeto a la expresión más corporal. De esta manera, el público asistirá al choque entre dos placas tectónicas que se encuentran y se transforman.

Koset Quintana y Yiyo Ramírez han creado juntos una pieza única que combina sus dos mundos en un choque relacional, donde el cuerpo y los objetos se entrelazan en una danza poética. En esta obra, los movimientos de Quintana se complementan con las intervenciones de Ramírez, creando un diálogo visual que desafía las expectativas y explora nuevas posibilidades en el arte escénico. Su colaboración es un testimonio de cómo la unión de diferentes disciplinas puede dar lugar a experiencias artísticas que buscan abrazar distintos caminos.

Koset Quintana, con un enfoque en el movimiento, investiga cómo el cuerpo puede generar un diálogo con el espacio y seguir siendo parte de este espacio, como un objeto. Se cuestiona la profunda conexión entre lo que el cuerpo puede ser y lo que el cuerpo representa; analizando el grado de imitación de los gestos que realizamos. 

Yiyo Ramírez se especializó en la manipulación de objetos y malabares contemporáneos, desafiando las convenciones tradicionales de su aprendizaje circense. Su habilidad para transformar objetos cotidianos en herramientas de expresión artística añade una capa de complejidad a su trabajo, invitando al público a reconsiderar su relación con los objetos que nos rodean.

El tándem artístico firma la dramaturgia, la puesta en escena y protagoniza la pieza como intérpretes. El equipo se completa con Richy Gardez en la iluminación y el sonido, Nuhacet Galván en el vídeo y René Cañón Cortés y Javi Pino con el apartado fotográfico.

Dentro de las residencias artísticas Voz y cuerpo que desarrolla el Auditorio de Tenerife en La Salita, comienza una nueva colaboración con el Laboratorio de Artes Vivas y Ciudadanía de Canarias (LAV-C). Con esta alianza el proyecto encabezado por la gestora cultural Beatriz Bello y el artista Darío Bardam acompañarán tres residencias de jóvenes creadores canarios con una clara vertiente performativa, siendo La Sísmica la segunda de ellas.

La programación de teatro de La Salita continúa el próximo 25 y 26 de enero a las 19:30 horas con Un sublime error de Needcompany. Las entradas, a un precio general de 8 euros, se pueden adquirir en www.auditoriodetenerife.com, en la taquilla de lunes a viernes de 10:00 a 17:00 horas y sábados de 10:00 a 14:00 horas y de forma telefónica llamando al 902 317 327 en el mismo horario.

Four performances of ˋTrouble in Tahitiˊ, with tickets at 20 euros and various discounts.

Ópera de Tenerife welcomes 2025 with four performances of Trouble in Tahiti, a chamber opera in-house production. After last year’s success, with tickets sold out, the fun show by Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story) is returning to the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife on 18, 19, 25, and 26 January at 7.30 p.m. Tickets for this show, which plays jazz music, are on sale for 20 Euros, 10 Euros for people under 30, and offers several discounts.

This one-act opera in seven scenes is part of Bernstein's repertoire, a figure who was one of America's first conductors and well-known for his educational televised concerts. Premièred in 1952 in Massachusetts, the opera is set in a rich American suburb and tells the story of Dinah's disillusionment with her husband Sam, who is more interested in his career and distractions than in his family.

In this story by the American composer, a young, middle-class married couple in the 1950s is going through a relationship crisis. Far from being tackled by them both, it leads them to seek refuge in the consumerist and rampant material inherent to the North American lifestyle of the era (the American dream). A jazz trio conveys this in an ironic tone, which plays like a Greek chorus during their solo scenes and the couple's arguments.

This in-house production by the Auditorio de Tenerife involves a predominantly local artistic team, with the musical side led by the Tenerife composer and orchestra conductor Francis Hernández and the staging by Siscu Ruz, a Catalan theatre director based in Lanzarote.

The team is completed by the stage designer Carlos Santos from Gran Canaria, who has come up with a white design that creates unity between the stage and the rest of the hall; the costume design is by Leo Martínez from Tenerife, who has taken inspiration from the period dress while adding a futuristic touch; and the lighting is by Ibán Negrín, also from the island, who will surprise the crowd with the atmosphere of the aria Island Magic.

The stage director's approach includes unifying the hall with white, offering a nod to the typical white houses of American residential developments in the storyline. Also, he wanted to add the colour orange to allude "to the symbolism of Mr or Ms Right (known as media naranja, 'half orange', in Spanish), which is so often used to refer to the endless pursuit of true love, which can only be found, allegedly, through the union of two incomplete parts. Has society forgotten that we are already full of oranges?"

The cast is headed up by the mezzo-soprano Blanca Valido from Gran Canaria, who plays Dinah, and the Mexican baritone Omar Lara, who plays her husband, Sam. The cast is completed by the members of the trio who accompany the lead characters in the narration: Tenerife soprano Candelaria González, Basque tenor Aitor Garitano, and Lanzarote baritone Borja Molina.

Francis Hernández will conduct the Ensemble Ópera de Tenerife, an orchestral ensemble made up of fourteen musicians: Satomi Morimoto (piano), Sara Cabrera (flute), Desirée González (oboe/English horn), Diego Jorge Rodríguez (clarinet), Alberto Díaz (bassoon), Marianne Melián (horn), Aitor Acosta (trumpet), Cristo R. Delgado (trombone), Nelson Hernández (percussion), Juan Manuel Díaz (violin I), Carmen Vázquez (violin II), Alba Gorrea (viola), Diego Pérez (cello) and Juan Carlos Baeza (double bass).

The Auditorio de Tenerife will stage a shortened version by Garth Edwin Sunderland. The four performances offered count with the authorisation of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited.

The Opera de Tenerife is an initiative organised by the Island Council through the Auditorio de Tenerife with the collaboration of the ICDC (Regional Institute of Cultural Development) and the INAEM (National Institute of Performing Arts and Music).

The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Check the special discounts for, among others, students, unemployed people and large families.

The Auditorio de Tenerife would like to wish you a Merry Christmas.

 Illusion, family, friendship and emotion are values that bring us closer to you at this time of year.

Discover below the greeting we have prepared:

Tickets for this Sunday's concert have already sold out.

The Mississippi Mass Choir returns to the Tenerife as part of The Gospel Legend Tour to offer a concert on Sunday (22) at 7.30 p.m. in the Symphony Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife. The annual gospel concert has once again sold out the tickets.

The Mississippi Mass Choir was founded in 1988 by Frank Williams, one of the acclaimed Jackson Southernaires and the executive director of the gospel division of Malaco Records. They made their first recording on 28 October of that year at the Jackson Municipal Auditorium. In the spring of 1989, just five weeks after its release, the record topped the Billboard gospel chart.

That same year, the Mississippi Mass Choir was voted the best choir and new artist of the year at the James Cleveland convention in New Orleans. It was also acknowledged at the Stellar Awards for Best Recording, Best New Artist, and Best Gospel Video. It was the perfect take-off for a choir that would end up making the world its stage, touring non-stop through the United States, Japan, Latin America and Europe, in addition to being the first gospel group to perform at the Acropolis of Athens and the first to sing for Pope John Paul II at his summer residence.

The choir's first concert in Spain took place in 1997 at the Maestranza Theatre in Seville. Since then, it has performed in Peralada (Girona), San Sebastian, Madrid and Barcelona. At Christmas 2010, this ensemble accompanied the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra at a traditional concert organised by the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Its recording label is Malaco Records, known in the American industry as 'The Last Soul Company'. Its catalogue includes all the recordings of gospel artists under the legendary Savoy Records label, from Shirley Caesar to James Cleveland. The label's artists have consistently topped Billboard gospel charts, with hits by Walter Hawkins, the creator of Oh Happy Day, Dorothy Norwood, and the Mississippi Mass Choir.

The show offers three performances and deals with the musical taste during adolescence and the ˊguilty pleasuresˊ

The new theatrical performance hall La Salita of the Auditorio de Tenerife welcomes Romeu Costa this weekend with his show María Kárei, a piece in which he reflects on the musical guilty pleasures of adolescence. The Portuguese actor and director's three show times for this work will take place on Friday (20), Saturday (21), and Sunday (22) at 7.30 p.m.

Romeu Costa is the lead in María Karéi, a work about a researcher who tries to discover why some songs from our adolescence remain in our memory well into our adult lives, like favourite hangouts to which we often return.

To find out why this happens, the researcher turns his attention to the songs we insist on listening to alone because they embarrass us and thus become our guilty pleasures. After reviewing hits from the 90s and studies on the role music plays in our lives, the researcher sets his sights on the American artist Mariah Carey. She becomes the subject of his research and his guilty pleasure.

In this work, Costa questions “how we can become aware of who we are and our position in the world through the songs we listen to and, in particular, through the songs that embarrass us”. In addition, he contended that “watching Mariah Carey may be a way of trying to understand the world, Portugal in the 80s and 90s and our memories of adolescence”.

“María Karéi” takes audiences on a journey through icons, memories and embarrassments. In this performance-based conference, the researcher becomes a case study and a subject of discovery. The show is co-produced by D. Maria II National Theatre and Matosinhos Constantino Nery Municipal Theatre.

Romeu Costa is an actor known abroad for interpreting the fascist in Tiago Rodrigues’ play “Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists. After earning a degree in theatre studies from the Higher School of Theatre and Cinema of Lisbon, his professional career began in 2000 with the most important creators of theatrical works in Portugal at the time, like Beatriz Batarda, Bruno Bravo, Gonçalo Amorim, Luca Aprea, Marco Martins, Miguel Seabra, Natália Luíza, Nuno Cardoso, Nuno Carinhas, Pedro Gil, Ricardo Neves-Neves, Tiago Guedes and Tiago Rodrigues.

His interpretation in Pedro Gil’s “Mona Lisa Show” earned him a nomination in 2009 for the Golden Globe award for Best Theatrical Actor, and his role in Tiago Rodrigues’ “Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists” earned him another nomination in 2021. In 2018, the Portuguese Society of Authors chose him for its best-actor award for his role in the play Orphans, written by Dennis Kelly and directed by Tiago Guedes.

In addition to his work as an actor, he oversaw the organisation and direction of artistic projects with young non-acting talent and scientific researchers. He teaches scientific communication at the School of Doctoral Programmes of the New University of Lisbon.

The tickets can be purchased at a single price of €8 on www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327, from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The celebration, with a mix of jazz, traditional Japanese music and more, will take place this Friday in the Chamber Hall.

As part of its jazz concerts, the Auditorio de Tenerife programmes the celebration of 20 years of ST Fusion ensemble next Friday (20th December) at 7.30 p.m. in the Chamber Hall. In addition to the founding members, the double bass player Tomás López-Perea Cruz and the singer Satomi Morimoto, this concert will also feature Jonay Mesa on guitar and Sergio Díaz on drums.

ST Fusion was formed in Tokyo in 2003. After a year of research and composition, the Japanese artist Morimoto and the Canarian artist López-Perea Cruz recorded their first album, Occiriental, in 2004. With this album, both artists aimed to capture the fusion of Western and Eastern culture.

The duo has met with critical acclaim in several countries, such as Spain, England, Italy, Serbia, Morocco, Cape Verde, Senegal, Japan, South Korea, Cuba, Brazil and Colombia, and its eight audio recordings have been nominated and awarded in regional, national and international selections.

ST Fusion's unique sound is the result of its avant-garde and organic approach of blending contemporary jazz, traditional Japanese music, funk, classical, rock, African music and other genres absorbed over the years by its highly versatile members.

The musical maturity is the core of this multicultural ensemble with two decades of experience of studio time and musical experimentation and performances on four continents.

The tickets can be purchased at a single price of €15 and €5 for under 30s on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Check the special discounts for, among others, students, unemployed people and large families.

The contemporary dance performance at the Symphony Hall incorporates both live percussion and electronic music.

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers next week Carcaça, by the company of the Portuguese dancer and choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira.  The contemporary dance show, featuring ten performers, will take place on Wednesday, 18 and Thursday, 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Symphonic Hall. The tickets are on sale for €15, €5 for the audience under 30 years of age, and discounts are available.

Carcaça starts from familiar footwork, from clubbing, balls, cypher battles and the studio to approach Portuguese folk dances, carrying out an exercise that integrates the past and the present. Thus, the dancers, dressed in tennis shoes and modern costumes by Aleksandar Protic, form a collective that researches their collective identity in a physical, intuitive and unpretentious flow of the body, dance and cultural construction.

In Carcaça, Marco da Silva Ferreira uses dance as a tool to research community, the construction of collective identity, memory, and cultural crystallization. The choreography, which initially starts with jumping footwork as an agitator and accelerator, progressively draws a vibrant, rebellious, and carnivalesque body.

The steps, complex but made with simple sneakers, will bring the sound to the stage and the exchanges between kinetic, thermal and light energy. The physical sounds are accompanied by drums played by João Pais Filipe and electronic music by Luis Pestana. These elements, performed live, constitute a soundtrack that connects references from traditional music (like fanfares and marches), postmodern music, and clubbing music (techno trance and dub). The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Check the special discounts for students, unemployed people and large families.

The concert, conducted by José Luis Gómez Ríos and featuring pianist Simon Trpčeski as soloist, will take place tomorrow, Friday 13 December

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor complete a programme whose expectation has managed to sell out all the seats for this event, which will take place this Friday (13 May), at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorio de Tenerife.

The Sinfónica de Tenerife will share the stage with pianist Simon Trpčeski, who has launched onto the international stage 20 years ago as a BBC New Generation Artist and who has collaborated with over a hundred orchestras on four continents, as well as having worked with conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Marin Alsop, Gustavo Dudamel, Cristian Măcelaru, Gianandrea Noseda, and Vasily Petrenko, among others.

José Luis Gómez Ríos, current musical director of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, will conduct this concert. Maestro Gómez Ríos, a former violinist in the Sinfónica de Tenerife, has already conducted this orchestra in April this year. Awarded first prize in the Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition in 2010, Gómez Ríos was subsequently appointed Assistant Conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Before being appointed as Musical Director of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, he was the Principal Conductor of the 1813 Teatro Sociale di Como Orchestra.

Audience members may use the Lanzadera Sinfónica to facilitate attendance at the concert. This free bus service takes passengers from the north and south of the island to the auditorium. To access this service, attendees must book a free bus ticket, even if they already have a ticket for the concert. Places for this shuttle service are limited. The bus tickets may be reserved through the same channels used to purchase event tickets until 11 p.m. today, 12 December.

As usual, the Tenerife Association of Music Friends -ATADEM will present a talk about the concert. José Lorenzo Chinea will provide the audience with further insight into the works that will be performed that evening. The presentation will take place in the Sala Avenida of the Auditorio de Tenerife from 6.30 p.m. to 7.15 p.m.

The concert 'Bach-Transcriptions and Fragments' closes the 2024 organ cycle in the Auditorio de Tenerife

The German organist Arno Hartman offers the concert Bach-Transcripciones y fragmentos, this Sunday (15 November) at noon at the Symphony Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife. The programme is solely comprised of works by Johann Sebastian Bach. In addition to his original pieces, the programme includes organ transcriptions of several acclaimed composers and efforts to complete Bach's fragments of organ music.

Transcription, especially for organ, has always been a widely extended practice that seeks to adapt to one instrument piece composed initially for another. Transcriptions flourished in the 18th century, reaching their summit about Bach. Bach's transcriptions are of great artistic value, and the German composer himself adapted his works to the organ.

This concert, which closes the 2024 organ cycle in the Auditorio de Tenerife, includes one of Bach's most famous compositions: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 2024). This work is based on his Schübler Chorales, a collection of six transcriptions of his cantata cycles. It shall be preceded by the transcription of a group of Franz Liszt's cantatas as the evening's solemn opening performance. Bach's student and contemporary Johann Friedrich Agricola stand out for his noteworthy transcription of Ricercare for six voices, a piece of Das musikalische Opfer.

Bach's original works Präludium und Fuge in C (BWV 547) and the chorale Advent edition Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (BMV 659) are among the most famous organ works from his Leipzig period. His Pastorella is greatly influenced by the Italian school and features the musical attributes of shepherds, i.e. bagpipes and chirimía. The first part immediately evokes a Christmas atmosphere, continuing a long tradition of "pastoral music" insofar as style: a work with four movements, Italian and French influences and a clear Yuletide spirit.

Pedal-Exercitium and Fantasia and Fugue in C minor for five voices were not completed by Bach. Ton Koopman and Lorenzo Ghielmi, two of today's most renowned organists specialising in Bach have completed these pieces with great care to remain true to the spirit of the German composer. The programme will draw to a close with Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582, registered by Franz Liszt and Johann Gottlob Töpfer.

Born in Duisburg (Germany), Arno Hartman studied organ, orchestral conducting and religious music at the University of Music and Performing Arts of Vienna. Invitations extended to him to perform at concerts have taken him to organ festivals throughout Europe, Iceland, the United States, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Argentina and Uruguay.

As an organ soloist, he has performed with the Orchestra da Camera di Firenze and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic, among other engagements. He has taught several master classes at Emory University in Atlanta and the Gnessin Music Academy in Moscow, where he recently sat on the jury in the "First Leonid Rojsman Organ Competition”.

After many years of musical activity in Vienna, where he was in charge of numerous concerts for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, he joined the Vienna Symphonic as an organist. Mr Hartmann also worked for many years as the musical director of a church in Bochum, Germany, and he is currently the artistic director of the Bochum Organ Festival.

Tickets for the organ concert are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Check the special discounts for students, unemployed people and large families.