Festival de Música Contemporánea de Tenerife (FMUC) presents a concert by DifrAcción Ensemble. The group specialises in 21st century music and takes this chance to present the world premiere of La Fortaleza, composed by Francis Hernández. Sala de Cámara at Auditorio de Tenerife is hosting the show on Monday, the 27th at 7:30 pm. There will be a talk starting an hour before to put the concert in context. Admission to the talk is free.

The group emerges in response to the need for that music which is not usually included in the regular programmes of auditoriums, groups and festivals: 21st century contemporary academic music.

Specifically, it is focused on current and glocal composition, performing premieres and playing a major role in the circulation of the sound art of the archipelago and Latin America.

It has a flexible membership and is open to performance and to using electronics, in addition to training musicians to approach new techniques, aesthetics and score writing. Made up of a core of performers of national and international scope, it regularly invites outstanding young musicians who are starting in the world of music to help them, thanks to performing teachers and composers who are experienced in the field.

Their programme today exclusively consists of the works of living Canarian composers who are members of COSIMTE (Tenerife association of symphonic composers and musicologists). These pieces were composed in this century and most of them are being played for the first time. 

Tickets can be bought at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday except holidays, on website www.auditoriodetenerife.com  or by calling 902 317 327.

Pianist and composer Francis Hernández is regarded to be an eclectic musician who has alternated teaching with composition and musical direction. He was born in La Orotava, where he started to study piano and trumpet to then go on to further his education at  Conservatorio Superior de Música de Tenerife. In 1996 he attended an intensive course at Berklee College of Music and in 2014 he studied composition at Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias. He has been part of different jazz and popular music bands since the mid-1990s.

From 2004-2008 he worked as musical director for RTVE and Televisión Canaria. Since 2010 he has been part of different projects by producer Pablo Cebrián and has written music for animation series and short films and has also arranged and orchestrated different national productions. Between 2014-2018 he was the musical director at Auditorio de Tenerife of the musicales Jesucristo Superstar, Evita and Sunset Boulevard. In this last phase, he also conducted Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife in two concerts for Fiestas del Cristo de La Laguna (2016 and 2018).