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This concert takes place in the Chamber Hall next Thursday with works by Medtner, Brahms and Prokofiev.

The Auditorio de Tenerife is showing a concert by the pianist Nikolai Lugansky and the violinist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky next Thursday (28 November) in the Chamber Hall at 7:30 p.m., featuring works by Nikolai Medtner, Johannes Brahms, and Sergei Prokofiev.

Nikolai Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist from the 30s of the last century. An implacable opponent of contemporary music, he was a post-Romantic influenced by Schumann and Brahms, as well as by Rachmaninoff, influences that have a significant presence in his first sonata for violin, which opens the concert. The two first movements premiered in Moscow in 1910, with the composer's older brother, Alexander Medtner, as the soloist. The entire work premiered a year later. It is a complex work displaying Medtner's gift for textures, development of themes and formal mastery.

The programme continues with Brahms' Sonata No. 3 in D minor, the composer's last sonata for violin. Unlike his previous sonatas, it is formed by four movements and reflects a mature Brahms who displays concision in his expressive power. Its bars again attest to the composer's extraordinary mastery of compositional technical resources.

After the intermission, the programme concludes with Sonata No. 1 by Prokófiev, another of the great works in the chamber music repertoire. It is a tormented work, written between 1938 and 1946. The music becomes ethereal while the violin performs notes that slip out disconcertingly, like "the wind in a cemetery", according to the composer.

Pianist Nikolai Lugansky is known for his interpretations of Rachmaninoff, Prokófiev, Chopin and Debussy. He regularly collaborates with directors like Nagano, Temirkanov, Honeck, Noseda, Kochanovsky, Petrenko and Shani. He has likewise been a guest of major international orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Oslo, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Spain. 

Lugansky has an exclusive contract with Harmonia Mundi, and his album César Franck, Préludes, Fugues & Chorals (2020) received the Diapason d'Or. His latest release, Rachmaninoff: 'Études-Tableaux; 3 Pièces, was awarded the Choc de l'Année of 2023 (Classica) and the Gramophone Editor's Choice (March 2023).

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky is a Belgian-Russian violinist. In 2007, he won the silver medal and five special prizes at the Thirteenth International Tchaikovsky Competition. His victory at the Sibelius Competition in Helsinki in 2010 was also incredibly significant for the violinist. Since then, he has become a frequent guest in Finland. In 2010, he also won the First Prize at the International Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna. He collaborates with Sakari Oramo, Vasily Sinaisky, Dima Slobodeniouk, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Klaus Mäkelä, and Mao Fujita, among others.

In 2019, Boriso-Glebsky was the first to record Eugène Ysaÿe's previously unknown concerto with the Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Jean-Jacques Kantorov.  He plays a violin created by the Austrian violin maker Martin Schwalb in 2020. His instrument was based on a model of Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù's violin from 1744.

Tickets can be purchased at a single price of €15 and €5 for the audience under 30 years 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.

Eleven participants, all pupils from the professional conservatoires of the Canary Islands, will compete to be the island's representative.

The Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife hosts this Saturday (23 November) at 4 p.m. the regional phase of the 23^rd Intercentros Melómano. This regional competition for music students will choose the representative of the Canary Islands to compete for the Performance Prize for Soloists under the Professional Degree category. Entry is free until total capacity is reached.

The auditions will involve pupils from the professional conservatoires of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in different instrumental specialities: percussion, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, guitar, piano and violin. With the collaboration of the Auditorio de Tenerife, the event will host performances of a maximum of 15 minutes with a freely chosen repertoire. After the performances, the jury deliberates; subsequently awards the diplomas and announces the winner.

The participants are Guillermo Almeida and Miguel Mira, percussion; Teo Rivero, Lucía Gorostiza and Pablo Rosales, clarinet; Juan Diego Cardozo and Lamberto David Torres, violin; and Diego Alexander, trumpet, Diego Bencomo, guitar, Paula Hiraldo, piano and Sarah Hiraldo, saxophone. The jury will be made up of the composer Miguel Ángel Linares Pineda, the technical director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Daniel Broncano, and the pianist Ana Lucía Domínguez González.

The first person classified will represent the Canary Islands during the final phase of the competition, which will take place on December 7 in the Auditorium of the Council of Alicante (ADDA). The final phase will involve the seventeen regional representatives trying to win the prize. It consists of a concert tour throughout Spain, including solo performances and concerts with symphony orchestras, such as the European Youth Orchestra of Madrid and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Granada. Likewise, the regional winners may be selected by the orchestra and the chorus of Spain's state-owned broadcaster RTVE to participate in its III Classical Gala for Young Talents, to be held in 2025.

The Intercentros Melómano is an initiative by the Fundación Orfeo, created in 2002 to encourage pupils from music conservatoires to actively participate in professional competitions.

The week-long event concluded Saturday with a sold-out family-oriented concert

The Sinfónica de Tenerife continues reaching out to new audiences with associated undertakings, such as its recent concerts for schoolchildren and families. The events, which met with enough enthusiasm to sell all tickets, were designed to appeal to families, children and adults alike. The evocatively titled concert Caracol, saca la tuba al sol (Snail, play your tuba under the sun!) brought generations together to enjoy classical music. It was specially presented to capture the imagination of spectators of all ages.

The work was interpreted, scripted and narrated by Ana Hernández Sanchiz, who thrilled audiences with a magical listening experience. She dedicated the work to preschool students and families with young children. Special emphasis was placed on the tuba, an instrument whose size and sound often fascinate children. the youngest audience participated in the concerts, singing and clapping throughout the musical story.

The concert for preschool students was held on Wednesday and Thursday in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife, where 1,549 children from 26 schools and 9 municipalities attended the four concerts. The concerts were also held at the Auditorio of Guía de Isora last Friday, 15 November, before a public of 139 students, and two sold-out concerts were performed on Saturday morning, one for infants and toddlers and another for older children.

The concerts were performed by the Chamber Quintet of the Sinfónica de Tenerife orchestra, composed of Eduardo Langarica and Laura Espinos on violins; The Chamber Quintet of the Sinfónica de Tenerife orchestra performing this concert comprises the violinists Eduardo Langarica and Laura Espinos, the violist Álvaro Godoy, the cellist Joanna Hetherington, double bass Aron Taylor, and finally Eduardo Martín on tuba. The program of this top cast included Antonín Dvořák's Humoresque, the Polka pizzicato by Johann Strauss (Jr.) and Josef Strauss. The orchestra performed the Suite Concertante by Christer Danielsson and the Chinese Dance from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to finish the concert.

On Wednesday, the disseminator will present the details of the production of the Auditorio de Tenerife and the Teatro de la Maestranza of Seville

Ramón Gener returns a second time this month to the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife to talk about the contemporary opera La bella Susona. The meeting with the music disseminator will take place on Wednesday (20 November) at 7:30 p.m. For these presentations, enriched with live singing and piano accompaniment, the tickets for the general public are priced at 8 euros and 5 euros for those under 30. The price for the more than 1,200 subscribers to Ópera de Tenerife is 4 euros.

Ramón Gener, who is also a writer, will develop the evolution of music up to the present day, in order to understand its keys, where it comes from and why. He will also reveal the details of this tragic play based on real events. This opera is a co-production of the Auditorio de Tenerife and the Teatro de la Maestranza of Seville.

La bella Susona  tells the story of a young Jewish woman from Seville in the 15^th century, who betrayed her father and reveals to her lover the existence of a plot, in which her father was the ringleader. The members of the group of conspirators are arrested and executed. Susona, ostracised by her people, converted to Christianity, but the Christians too, like her beloved, despised her. The dejected Susona retired to a convent and was ordered to place her head above the door of her home upon her death.

Ópera de Tenerife programmes for 7 December at 7:30 p.m. in the Symphony Hall this new work, the third subscription title, with a score by Alberto Carretero and a libretto by Rafael Puerto. Tickets are already nearly sold out.

The final lecture of Ramón Gener during this season as the ambassador of Ópera de Tenerife, focusing on Giuseppe Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco, is scheduled for March 14, 2025.

Born in Barcelona, Ramón Gener has a degree in humanities and business studies. He began his musical education at the Higher Conservatoire of Music of the Liceu at the age of six. After several years of performing as a baritone, he transitioned to a new role as a music disseminator. He offers lectures on opera, classical music, and art, which have been featured on radio and television, both locally and internationally.

Gener has published four books: Si Beethoven pudiera escucharme (2013), El amor te hará inmortal (2016), Beethoven, un músico sobre un mar de nubes (2020) and Historia de un piano (2024).

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., and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The three performances of this production of the Teatro Comunale di Modena will be staged next week.

Next week, the Auditorio de Tenerife presents Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, the second subscription title of the Ópera de Tenerife season. Tickets for all three performances, which will take place on November 19, 21, and 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Symphonic Hall, have been sold out for a month. The staging is a production of the Teatro Comunale di Modena, brought directly from Italy and touring theatres worldwide for twenty years.

Madama Butterfly is one of the world's most frequently performed operas and has captivated audiences for 120 years. The opera tells the tragic story of Cio-Cio-San, a geisha dedicated to her marriage with Pinkerton, an American soldier. However, Pinkerton views her more as a curiosity during his time in Japan rather than a genuine partner. The three acts of this heart-wrenching tale intertwine themes of love, betrayal, and sacrifice.

The stage management and set design bear the signature of the renowned Italian master Stefano Monti. Monti is known for his cultural fusions on stage, adding techniques such as those of the Japanese noh theatre, which can be enjoyed in the Auditorio with the performer Monique Arnaud. Keiko Shiraishi's set design and Nevio Cavina's lighting complete Monti's team.

Ramón Tebar, the musical director of this production, will take the baton of the Sinfónica de Tenerife. At the same time, the Main Choir Ópera de Tenerife-Intermezzo will be conducted on this occasion by Miguel Ángel Arqued.

The Lithuanian soprano Kristine Opolais plays the starring role of Cio-Cio-San. The tenor Giorgi Sturua will be Pinkerton, while mezzo-soprano Alisa Kolosova will play the role of the faithful Suzuki and baritone Fernando Campero the role of Sharpless, the consul who warns of Butterfly's possible pain.

Tenor Alberto Ballesta will give voice to Goro, the matchmaker, and bass Matías Moncada will play the role of Cio-Cio-san's uncle, The Bonze, an imposing figure in the family tradition. The tenor David Barrera will play the role of Prince Yamadori, a symbol of hope and affection towards Cio-Cio-San, while the mezzo-soprano Christina Campsall is Kate Pinkerton, whose arrival will mark a turning point in the protagonist's destiny.

The Ópera 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).

For Saturday's performance (23 November), the Island Council has set up an Opera Shuttle to facilitate access with two TITSA buses. One will depart at 5:15 p.m. from the south (Adeje), the other from the north (Buenavista), with the Auditorio de Tenerife as their destination. Once the event is over, there will be a 15-minute gap until the buses drive the route in the opposite direction.

To access this service, you must collect a bus ticket purchased as a show, but instead of choosing a fare, select the name of the stop where you will join the journey. Places for the Opera Shuttle are limited and will be available until Friday, 22 November, at noon.

The operetta, among the best known of its genre, is scheduled for 28 December at the Auditorio de Tenerife with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre.

This year’s programming of the Auditorio de Tenerife will draw to a close with the beloved operetta Die Fledermaus (The Flittermouse) by Johann Strauss, a Christmas classic in Austrian and German musical theatre. The performance will kick off the 41^st Canaries International Music Festival (FIMC), the result of an unprecedented coproduction agreement between the Auditorio de Tenerife and the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus. The event will bring together in both cities one of the best-known operettas in concert format, the prestigious French conductor Marc Minkowski and the orchestra Les Musiciens du Louvre, along with the Tenerife Opera Choir and a selection of the best singers of this genre.

The concerts are scheduled for 28 December at the Auditorio de Tenerife and 30 December at the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, a few days before the festival FIMC, which is to see the performance of over 60 concerts throughout the archipelago.

Cristóbal de la Rosa, the General Director of Cultural Innovation and Creative Industries, Jorge Perdigón, the Director of the Canaries International Music Festival, José Luis Rivero, the Artistic Director of the Auditorio de Tenerife, and Tilman Kuttenkeuler, the General Director of the foundation 'Fundación Auditorio y Teatro' of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, are to attend the presentation.

Kuttenkeuler expressed his satisfaction regarding the auditorium’s programming of ‘The Flittermouse’: ‘This will be our first coproduction with Auditorio de Tenerife. We hope the interpretation of this operetta will become a Christmas classic in Tenerife as it is in southern Germany and Austria’. Perdigón stated that the performance will coincide with the 150^th anniversary of its premiere in Vienna in 1874, adding, ‘The Flittermouse is the 16^th most frequently interpreted opera worldwide’.

Rivero noted that this will be the second time the work has been interpreted at the Auditorio de Tenerife. He went on to point out the significance of the participation of Canarian artists and the 40-member Tenerife Choir’s accompaniment of the orchestra. De la Rosa explained that regional authorities intend ‘to begin with these two emblematic venues and continue elsewhere in the islands to reach a broader public’.

Refined humour, irony, and musical elegance.

The work’s premiere in 1874 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna met with the lukewarm reaction of an audience that did not fully appreciate its refined humour, irony, informality and musical elegance. However, subsequent interpretations in Berlin marked the beginning of its great success and popularity.

The libretto is replete with romantic comedy, identities assumed at a fancy-dress party and an unforgettable ball. These elements, along with the work’s unbridled optimism, have made Die Fledermaus a theatrical Christmas classic, especially in Austria and Germany. The auditoriums of Tenerife and Gran Canaria now partake in this Central European tradition with their programming of the operetta of Johann Strauss, scheduled days before the commencement of the bicentennial of the birth of The Waltz King.

The story has all the ingredients of the best romantic comedies: infidelities, costumes that conceal identities, characters in the guise of others, and even a pending prison sentence faced by the main character Eisenstein, a trickster who becomes the unwitting victim of one of his practical jokes. Rosalinde and her husband hide the truth, while the maid and aspiring singer Adele is revealed as the key role in a story abounding in theatre artists, aristocrats, public servants and ex-lovers who conceal their identities.

The gaiety and frivolity of this Viennese operetta are underpinned by a score of immense musicality and vocal complexity that put it at the top of its genre.

Marc Minkovsky and Les Musiciens du Louvre

This concert version will feature the collaboration of the French maestro Marc Minkowski. The well-known conductor specialising in Baroque music, classical works and operettas will lead his orchestra Les Musiciens du Louvre, an acclaimed French ensemble based in Grenoble.

Founded in 1982 by Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre brings to life Baroque, classical and Romantic works with period instruments. For the last 40 years, the orchestra has garnered acclaim for its interpretations of Handel, Purcell, and Rameau, as well as Haydn and Mozart, and, more recently, Bach and Schubert, in addition to its performances of 19th-century French works of Berlioz, Bizet, Massenet, Offenbach.

Together with Minkowski, the French ensemble and the Tenerife choir, Huw Montague Rendall (Gabriel von Eisenstein), Iulia Maria Dan (Rosalinde), Michael Kraus (Frank), Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein (Prince Orlofsky), Magnus Dietrich (Alfred), Leon Košavić (Dr. Falke), Krešimir Špicer (Dr. Blind), Alina Wunderlin (Adele) and Sandrine Buendia (Ida) will be in the leading roles.

The tickets for the concert can be purchased 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. or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327.

The show takes place this Friday and Saturday as part of the Auditorio de Tenerife's new theatre programme.

This weekend, the new theatre program at the Auditorio de Tenerife, La Salita, will feature Joan Font's performance, El Vendedor de Humo. Crónica de una invención (The Smoke Vendor: The Chronicle of an Invention). Both performances, which tell the story of the founder of the theatre company Comediants, are scheduled for Friday, the 15th, and Saturday, the 16th, both starting at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for both shows have already sold out. Directed by Joan Font, El Vendedor de Humo  is a collaborative creation between Font and screenwriter Piti Español.

El Vendedor de Humo is a show created by Font to commemorate the company's 50 years of existence and to review his career as an artist with audiences. Projections, music, light effects, masks, and other resources the company is known for will accompany his performance to thrill and delight the audience. Throughout the show, Joan Font will recount in great theatrical style the essential adventures and aspects of his lengthy career and life, engaging the public in the processes of the company's creation and staging of its shows.

Joan Font I Pujol started in the theatre world through Els Pastorets and La Passió, those regional Christmas celebrations held in his hometown, Olesa de Montserrat. From the beginning, he took an interest in the folklore and theatre associated with Catalonian tradition, open-air performances and masks' expressive and theatrical potential.

When he was 17, he moved to Barcelona to further his education at the Estudis Nous, where he met Albert Boadella, Albert Vidal, Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Josep Anton Codina and Josep Montanyès. In 1968, with José Tamayo, he worked as director's assistant in a new version of La Passió with updated and modernised staging. At the same time, he was in charge of the lighting of the variety shows of Capmany and Jaume Vidal Alcover at the venue The Dragon's Cave. He also oversaw the lighting of La fira de la mort (1970), written by Vidal Alcover and interpreted by Grup d'Estudis Teatrals d'Horta. He graduated from Institut del Teatre (1970) and studied under Jacques Lecoq at his school in Paris.

Font is a founding member of the theatre company Comediants, which emerged on the independent theatre scene in Barcelona. During Font's stay in France, the company consolidated, and, a year later, premiered in Font's hometown Non plus plis, its first work. Described as a massive party, the work includes elements that characterise popular culture, such as effigies used in traditional festivities, and deals with the subjects of power structures and the consideration of the ephemeral nature of life through festivities.

From this moment onward, Font worked tirelessly with Comediants as an actor, creator and director. The show Non plus plis is followed by Catacroc (1973), Taller (1976), Plou i fa sol (1976), Sarau de gala (1976) and Sol, solet (1978), the latter being its first show performed on a proscenium stage.

In 1980, at the Venice Biennale, Maurizio Scaparro invited Comediants to take part in helping to recover the city's Carnival tradition. At this time, Font was collaborating with the town council of Tàrrega and Xavier Fàbregas (as the head of the Catalonian government's cinema and theatrical arts initiatives), promoting the first "Trifulques Theatre Fair" and "Xim Xim in the Street" festivities, which gave rise to FiraTàrrega, one of Catalonia's most important theatre competitions. Afterwards, Font directed shows such as Dimonis (1981), the former being one of the Comediants' most successful works.

In 1992 Font was one of the most active members of the collective: Of note are its contributions to the Seville Expo '92 (daily presentation of mascot and parade, La magia del tiempo) and the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona (presentation of mascot and closing act). Throughout the 1995s and early 2000s, Font created and directed with Comediants a wide variety of shows for diverse venues and occasions, such as inaugurations and closing ceremonies, TV advertisements, large-scale celebrations, amusement-park entertainment (such as Port Aventura, 1995-1996), festivals, sports events, etc. The staging of The Magic Flute (1999) at the Liceu Theatre marked the commencement of Font's involvement with opera.

With the incorporation of Sergi Belbel in the artistic direction of the National Theatre of Catalonia (2005-2006 season), Font joined the theatre's advisory committee, collaborating in this function until 2008. Since 2007, he has focussed his efforts on the artistic direction of operas produced by Comediants and premiered around the globe. In addition, Font has worked as an artistic director in all types of theatrical and performing arts initiatives, as well as other audio-visual, publishing and educational projects.

La Salita's programme continues on 29 and 30 November with the company Los Colochos and its new show Tuta, based on the play Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare, in which this story set in Ancient Rome is transferred to the Mexican prison context. The staging of Los Coloches's new Shakespearian adaptation provides a novel stage proposal for exploring ideas such as territory, violence, cruelty, and vengeance. 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.

Tenerife-based dancer completes residency undertaken in La Salita

On Thursday (7th) at 7.30 p.m., the Auditorio de Tenerife proudly offers a sample of the work The Voices by the dancer Carlota Mantecón. The show culminates in a process of onstage creation and research that began on 30 October as part of her artistic residency. Entry is free until total capacity is reached.

"In The Voices, I engage with the vibration of the voice as a catalyst for movement. This experience relates to a tactile perception of contact, which leads to a unique form of knowledge and experience through touch." Mantecón explains.

Dancer and choreographer Carlota Mantecón is active in dance, choreography, and performativity. She performs onstage, although she also has experience in curation and teaching. She has performed in Norway, Slovenia, and Spain.

The dancer focuses on the relationship between matter, sound, and touch in her unique artistic endeavours. In her performances, she cultivates somatic or perceptive sensitivities that enable her to explore alternative modes of coexistence. Simultaneously, this process brings forth collective practices that defy the individualistic mindset beyond normativity.

The tickets for tomorrow's talk of the music disseminator are already sold out.

Tomorrow (Tuesday 5th), at 7.30 p.m., the Auditorio de Tenerife will host a new musical lecture performance by musical educator Ramón Gener. Tickets for this event are sold out. During this performance, he will provide insights into Giacomo Puccini's opera, Madama Butterfly, which will be staged on November 19, 21, and 23 at the Symphonic Hall. All three performances of the opera are also sold out.

Gener will discuss one of the world’s most frequently performed operas, which tells the tragic story of Cio-Cio-San, a geisha who dedicates herself to her marriage with Pinkerton, an American soldier. However, Pinkerton views her more as a curiosity during his time in Japan rather than a genuine partner. The three acts of this heart-wrenching tale intertwine themes of love, betrayal, and sacrifice. Puccini's drama has captivated audiences for 120 years, and the performances in Tenerife coincide with celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Italian composer’s death.

Ramón Gener will return to the island on November 20 to explore La Bella Susona by Alberto Carretero. His final lecture as the ambassador of Ópera de Tenerife, focusing on Giuseppe Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco, is scheduled for March 14, 2025. For these presentations, Gener enhances his explanations with live piano accompaniment. Tickets for the general public are priced at €8, while those under 30 can purchase tickets for €5. Opera subscription holders will receive a 50% discount, bringing their ticket price down to €4.

Born in Barcelona, Ramón Gener has a degree in humanities and business studies. He began his musical education at the Higher Conservatoire of Music of the Liceu at the age of six. After several years of performing as a baritone, he transitioned to a new role as a music educator. He offers lectures on opera, classical music, and art, which have been featured on radio and television, both locally and internationally. Gener has published four books: Si Beethoven pudiera escucharme (2013), El amor te hará inmortal (2016), Beethoven, un músico sobre un mar de nubes (2020) and Historia de un piano (2024), with which he won the Ramon Llull Award.

The maestro Antony Hermus and the soloist mezzo-soprano Barbara Kozelj will debut on the island, accompanied by the Sinfónica de Tenerife

The Dutch director Antony Hermus makes his debut directing the Sinfónica de Tenerife at the concert this Friday (1st) at 7.30 p.m. in the Auditorio de Tenerife, with a programme featuring the performance of Bruckner's monumental Sixth.

Antony Hermus, the current principal conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra and guest conductor of Opera North, is a leading figure in the musical life of the Netherlands. He has conducted all the major Dutch orchestras, such as the Royal Concertgebouw, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, The Hague Philharmonic and the Rotterdam Philharmonic.

In Tenerife, the conductor will share the stage with mezzo-soprano Barbara Kozelj, who also debuts with the Sinfónica de Tenerife performing Respighi's Il Tramonto. Kozelj, acclaimed on prestigious stages such as Carnegie Hall and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, is known for her charisma and versatility. For these qualities, she has been praised by international critics as one of the best voices.

The first part of this concert includes Olivier Messiaen's Les offrandes oubliées, a reflection on sin and redemption. It is followed by Respighi's Il Tramonto, a highly emotive work for voice and orchestra. Bruckner's Symphony No. 6, known for its majesty and emotional depth and as a representative work of the composer's late-period style, concludes the evening's performances.

As in every Symphonic recital, the Tenerife Association of Music Friends -ATADEM will present a talk about the works to be performed, hosted by Leandro Martín, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. at the Sala Avenida (in the hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife).

Tickets for this concert can be purchased until the day of the event on the website www.sinfonicadetenerife.es, 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. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Audience members may use the Lanzadera Sinfónica, a free bus service taking passengers from the north and south of the island to the Auditorio.  To access this service, you must collect a free bus ticket. Even if you already have a ticket for the concert, you will have to make a reservation for the free transport, as seating will be limited. The bus tickets may be reserved through the same channels used to purchase event tickets until the day before the concert, until 11 p.m.

The trilogy created by the Austrian composer two months before his death will be performed on Tuesday

As part of its piano concerts, the Auditorio de Tenerife programmed the last concert by pianist Paul Lewis dedicated to the complete sonatas of Franz Schubert. The English musician will return to the Chamber Hall next Tuesday (29th) at 7.30 p.m. The tickets are on sale for €15, €5 for those under 30. Check the special discounts for students; several discounts are available.

In this fourth and final programme, Sonata No. 19 in C minor opens the trilogy Schubert composed just two months before his death. He wanted to dedicate it to composer and pianist Hummel. Of great renown, Schubert was aware that he had taken up the baton from Beethoven, who had died a year earlier.

These three sonatas complement one another. The D958 is the most turbulent and impassioned of the three pieces, exhibiting an intimate lyricism characteristic of the composer, especially in its slow movements. Its first movement is of colossal power, contrasted with the almost mythical calmness of its adagio.

On the contrary, the sonata in A Major D959 seems to detail the composer's circumstances in a biographical manner, conveying a bucolic and superhuman peace that is sometimes transformed into drama and despair. Of large proportions, its second movement is the most moving, with a melancholic barcarolle in which the composer seems to bid farewell to the earthly realm with absolute serenity.

Lastly, Sonata D960 in B-flat major is the most subdued of all. Endlessly serene and full of contrasts, it constitutes a very mature work of great compositional expansiveness that provided the definitive finale to his repertoire of pieces created for piano.

The complete piano sonatas by Schubert take us on a unique and heart-breaking journey through the last 12 years of his life, from the charming lyricism of the early sonatas to the transcendent creativity of the last masterpieces and the harrowing moments of despair when his health began to decline.

Schubert's sonatas express some of the most essential elements of human experience with frankness and sincerity: longing, consolation, despair, joy, loss, nostalgia, and hope.

Paul Lewis is a renowned performer of the Central European piano repertoire. His performances and recordings of Beethoven and Schubert have received unanimous positive acclaim worldwide. Lewis was awarded a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his services to music, and his musical approach has earned him followers worldwide.

He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestras Berlin, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestras of New York and Los Angeles, the Symphony Orchestras of Chicago and London, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus. His close relationship with the Boston Symphony Orchestra led to his appointment as a Koussevitzky Artist 2020 at Tanglewood.

He has received awards such as Instrumentalist of the Year of the Royal Philharmonic Society, two Edison, three Gramophone, Diapason d'Or de l'Annee, the South Bank Show Classical Music Award, and honorary degrees from the universities of Liverpool, Edge Hill and Southampton.

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 proposal by the Spanish Pablo Márquez and the Japanese Atsuko Takano includes works by Bach, Beethoven, Ravel and Debussy.

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers a four-hand organ concert with Pablo Márquez and Atsuko Takano this Sunday (27th) at noon. The Symphony Hall stages the proposal "The art of transcription", with works by Bach, Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy and Pablo Márquez himself.

The programme to be performed this Sunday is based on Pablo Márquez's original transcriptions of German and French orchestral repertoire. The concert begins with the Ouverture and Air from Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, followed by the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

The second half of the programme centres on French works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the performance of Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel and Nuages, a part of Nocturnes, by Claude Debussy.

Lastly, the concert includes a Japanese Miniature composed by Pablo Márquez for the Iberian organ for four hands. It is based on the traditional Japanese song Sakura Sakura (Cherry Blossoms, Cherry Blossoms). The composition features the musical forms most often used in the repertoire of Iberian Baroque music: variations, tientos (ricercars) characterised by dramatic dissonance, right- and left-hand solo lines and battaglia). The Japanese melody is modal and runs through the work as a common thread.

Pablo Márquez is an organist at Valencia Cathedral and teaches harpsichord at the Higher Conservatory of Castellón. Atsuko Takano is the Musical Director and titular organist of the San Nicolás Church of Valencia.

The organ of Auditorio de Tenerife was built in the 20^th century by the prestigious organ builder Albert Blancafort and his team. It is considered a unique instrument not only for its design but also for its sound and musical ranges. The sounds are produced by 3,835 pipes housed in the walls of the emblematic Symphony Hall. The organist controls them from onstage through the console and the four keyboards that he can play.

The tickets for the concert can be purchased at a single price of €15 and 5 euros for the audience under 30 years of age 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. There are discounts for students, unemployed and large families.